I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, – compare notes and chat the hour away.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, “this is not a library!” “OK! I will talk louder, then!”
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning. One orients one’s attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ every summer.
In certain books – some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that’s sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.