Duhamel Quotes & Sayings

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set. — Josh Duhamel

I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female. — Josh Duhamel

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. — Georges Duhamel

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end. — Josh Duhamel

It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor. — Josh Duhamel

The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it. — Josh Duhamel

When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there. — Josh Duhamel

While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published. — Denise Duhamel

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said. — Denise Duhamel

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do. — Josh Duhamel

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures. — Denise Duhamel

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses. — Georges Duhamel

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means. — Denise Duhamel

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me. — Denise Duhamel

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. — Josh Duhamel

As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me. — Denise Duhamel

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event. — Denise Duhamel

Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can ... I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted. — Denise Duhamel

CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature ... While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living. — Jonathan Duhamel

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!" — Denise Duhamel

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible. — Josh Duhamel

What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals, ... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization ... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering. — Georges Duhamel

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet. — Denise Duhamel

I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing. — Denise Duhamel

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. — Josh Duhamel

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with. — Josh Duhamel

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't. — Denise Duhamel

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. — Georges Duhamel

When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch. — Josh Duhamel

Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans. — Josh Duhamel

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school. — Denise Duhamel

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative. — Josh Duhamel

Buddhist Barbie"
In the 5th century B.C.
an Indian philosopher
Gautama teaches "All is emptiness"
and "There is no self."
In the 20th century A.D.
Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man
with such a belly could pose,
smiling, and without a shirt. — Denise Duhamel

Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues. — Denise Duhamel

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something. — Josh Duhamel

Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. — Georges Duhamel

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems. — Denise Duhamel

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it. — Josh Duhamel

I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky. — Josh Duhamel

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. — Georges Duhamel

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything. — Georges Duhamel

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans ... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart. — Georges Duhamel

They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew? — Josh Duhamel

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself. — Josh Duhamel

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms. — Denise Duhamel

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium. — Josh Duhamel

What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter what - and the joy that writing has given me. — Denise Duhamel

The vegan diet is healthy and leads to a compassionate lifestyle. I've gotten so many benefits. My weight is easily maintained, my skin glows, I sleep better and I feel more energized. — Meagan Duhamel

I'm a glutton for coffee Heath Bar crunch ice cream. — Josh Duhamel

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel

Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away. — Bridget Carpenter

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve. — Josh Duhamel

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. — Georges Duhamel

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that. — Josh Duhamel

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes. — Josh Duhamel

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel

When I first started [taking acting classes] I sort of stuck my toes in but I was so nervous I didn't know if I could go all the way. I was so scared about it for some reason. The more confident I got with it, the more I just fell in love with it. I love going to work every day and trying to make the most of the stuff I've been given. — Josh Duhamel

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it. — Denise Duhamel

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires. — Georges Duhamel

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others. — Denise Duhamel

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. — Georges Duhamel

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions. — Denise Duhamel

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. — Georges Duhamel

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. — Georges Duhamel

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside. — Josh Duhamel

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry. — Denise Duhamel

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend. — Josh Duhamel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. — Georges Duhamel

The desire for order is the only order in the world. — Georges Duhamel

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world. — Denise Duhamel

The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off. — Josh Duhamel

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images. — Georges Duhamel

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. — Georges Duhamel

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. — Josh Duhamel

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure. — Denise Duhamel

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. — Josh Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? — Georges Duhamel

The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes. — Denise Duhamel

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Josh Duhamel

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen. — Denise Duhamel

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness. — Josh Duhamel

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough. — Josh Duhamel

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that. — Josh Duhamel

I feel sexiest when I can make you laugh. — Josh Duhamel

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that. — Josh Duhamel

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing. — Josh Duhamel

Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change. — Josh Duhamel

You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted. — Josh Duhamel