T. C. Boyle Quotes

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

Whenever I don't have anything to do, I play Candy Crush or Scrabble. We actors have time between shots, which we need to kill. And we cannot call friends or family, as you are called at a moment's notice. So you need to do something which you can dispose of immediately when called for a shot.

Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

If you're unwell you can simply cuddle up in bed and tune into a thriller. It's the best remedy.

I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.

I needed to entertain myself at home nights... I got a jar of bubbles.

I fantasize about being home in sweats watching 'Billions.'

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.

I always have my backpack.

I laugh, cry, go for movies, eat popcorn. All these things are pretty relaxing for me.

I think of comedy as my man: it's the one thing I can always rely on that will keep me safe, keep me fed, put a roof over my head.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people's go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.

I don't get bored. In the music business you get used to a lot of waiting around.

People are a lot more tolerant when they're home watching TV and they're looking for a laugh.

I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.