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Related I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie... SAM TRAMMELL There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl charac... EMILY BROWNING Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un... LAUREN TARSHIS When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays. DARIUS RUCKER I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younge... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spirituall... Q-TIP When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be... DOROTHY ALLISON When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless ch... DAKOTA JOHNSON The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, lik... AMANDA SEYFRIED I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back t... LUPE FIASCO I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's cha... TAVI GEVINSON If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that charac... ELIZA COUPE I think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is transcending the NBA. I also think it's coo... DRAYMOND GREEN Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to... JOHN LOGAN I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now... JIM COLEMAN I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes h... KATHLEEN HANNA When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point... DINAH MANOFF When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating whe... KATE BUSH The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn'... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. S... MANIKA I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer... MICHAEL KEATON I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thr... BRYAN FULLER I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a phys... JAIMIE ALEXANDER I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and fu... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it. JACK GLEESON 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in e... JORDIN SPARKS I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c... HAROLD PERRINEAU When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a... ELMORE LEONARD I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I&... PETER CAPALDI There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite... OLIVIA THIRLBY I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really ... MARIA MENOUNOS When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s... BILL SKARSGARD I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if ... BLAIR REDFORD I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk... PAUL WALKER I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men... CHARLYNE YI I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that... CHAD SMITH Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm ... LANCE GROSS I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ... EDDIE MARSAN I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's... ELODIE YUNG The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes yo... TAYLOR SWIFT I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess... LILY JAMES I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. KURT COBAIN I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and... NORTON JUSTER I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, ... IAN DOESCHER Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader.... COURTNEY LOVE I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year... LELE PONS I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same... DENIS VILLENEUVE I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read ... JOY BEHAR It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-fa... GARRETT HEDLUND I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. N... ANDREW PYPER No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that... TUCKER MAX When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a ... KATE BERNHEIMER I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classi... AMY LEE It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teache... ROB THOMAS I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not. LEONA LEWIS When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ... SAM CLAFLIN When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said t... BECKI NEWTON When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f... MADISON PETTIS I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doe... WINNIE HOLZMAN 'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that... ALEX GRAVES When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ... SUNIL YAPA Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I r... DREW GILPIN FAUST I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ... NINA DOBREV It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just... DAN BROWN I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I fi... NATHAN FILLION Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking p... BERENICE BEJO I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. RICK SPRINGFIELD My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect... GIGI HADID When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe... ROB REINER I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she ... QUEEN LATIFAH I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered tha... ERIK LARSON I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high scho... JOHN HAWKES I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman ye... DAN BUCATINSKY I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book read... RYAN REYNOLDS It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough. ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is goi... VINCE FLYNN I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. Yo... ANN LECKIE When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'. ANDREW LAWRENCE At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a... STEVE-O I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman... DENIS O'HARE I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plu... JASON AARON I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor an... MICHAEL BUBLE I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling m... KATEE SACKHOFF I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel ... JENNIFER DAMIANO I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assi... ANDREW CLEMENTS I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to ... PAULINE GEDGE My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not w... GENE SIMMONS As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's... SANDRA BERNHARD
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