Reading to small children is a specialty.
I wasn’t really comfortable reading until I was 12.
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush’s new book ‘41.’ Then George W. Bush responded to that post on Instagram. Then John McCain said ‘You two are hilarious’ by telegraph.
I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.
I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
As an actor, you’re pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people’s words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what’s going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
There are a couple of carp fishing books I’ve been reading. I’m very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn’t the thing to be seen doing – reading a book in your spare time.
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought – and more reading.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn’t talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.