When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.
For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
I like to be in bed by nine and asleep by ten. I like to wake up early, go to the gym at 7am, that's my regime.
I like to go to bed early.
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
I like to go to bed around 10 P.M.
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
The time of day when there was quiet and serenity was every night when we gathered in my parents' bedroom and knelt down together and prayed.
Usually, I'm asleep by midnight.
Say Goodnight Gracie.
Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.
When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.
I have the same wind-down routine when I go to bed, whether I'm shooting or not. It's nothing too special - maybe some TV, maybe a book.
The first thing I do after I wake up is switch on the music player and the last thing I do before going to sleep is stop it.
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before we fall asleep to listen to some Mozart.
I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.
