Stephen Rea Quotes

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I really don't like to read.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.