#readings

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#group #i #jazz #liked #lyrics

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#guest #house #i #into #little

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#been #believe #cases #fate #got

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#decision #four #i #interested #make

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away. ↗

— Buck Henry

#dustin #guy #knew #readings #right

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#called #does #los #los angeles #outfit

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. ↗

— David Amram

#between #bohemia #frank #had #hara