Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.
When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.
I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is. " I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
Read universally; think universally; live universally!
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear. '
