Donald Hall Quotes
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
-
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
-
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
-
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
-
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
-
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
-
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
-
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
-
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
-
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
-
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
-
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
-
I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
-
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
-
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
-
I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
-
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
-
My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.
-
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
