I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.
Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.
I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.
I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.
You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.
I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.
I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Sometimes you read something, and there's a part of you that remains in an analytical actor place. Am I going to do this movie? Is this a good part for me? Is it not? Can I bring something to this?
Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
