I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.
I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.
Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
I read pretty much every 'Venom' comic that exists.
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.
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
