If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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.
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 had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
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.
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.