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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.