Acting Quote by Sam Shepard

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring…

— Sue Townsend

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

— Masiela Lusha

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

— Shane McCrae

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

— Jonah Hill

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…

— Maxine Kumin

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the…

— James Gray

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is…

— Traci Lords