Reading Quotes

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Studies have shown kids have a greater chance for lifelong success if they know how to read by the third grade.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

I’m never the kind of person who’s sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I’ve always based it on, ‘Am I doing the best that I can do?’

I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I’ve seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.