Read Quotes

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.