"I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry." ― Stephen Colbert Topic(s): Poetry More From Stephen Colbert "I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way." "No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close." "I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law." More In Poetry "In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them."― Toni Braxton "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."― Thomas Carlyle "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."― Don Marquis