[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by lewdog

DO you even read?

Diane: Surely a man of your age and experience must have read some of the things on my list. What about Macbeth?

Thornton: I saw the movie. Orson Welles. Great actor, big actor. He was a Tall and Fat customer for years.

Diane: How about Cat On A Hot Tin Roof?

Thornton: I saw the movie. Burl Ives. Great actor, extra stout. He was a customer, too.

Diane: A Streetcar Named Desire.

Thornton: Great movie. Marlon Brando. He wasn't that big then, but he ballooned up nicely. I'd say, pound for pound, our finest American actor.

Diane: Don't you ever read?

Thornton: Who has time? I see the movie. I'm in and out in two hours.

Diane: Oh, Thornton, don't you see? The reason you want to read these works is so you can experience them for yourself, so you can share the thoughts and feelings of the writer, without the interference of your actor and director and professor's point of view getting in the way. To truly share and understand the common feelings of all mankind, the feelings of being alive.