I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

I’ve loved reading all my life.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I’ve just always been a reader.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I grew up reading science fiction.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.