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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

I never even had the time to read novels.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.