A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you