“I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there a...” — Robert Sean Leonard Quote

“I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.”

“My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.”

“My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.”

“There are a few roles I want to play, but mostly I just want to keep doing a play every now and then, watch kids grow and eat cookies and drink tea.”

“I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.”

“Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.”

“First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'”

“I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.”

“One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.”

“Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.”

“I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.”

“The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.”