George Takei Quotes

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

I love to listen to books on tape.

I always had a problem when I did the audio books myself because they weren't made to have me doing all the voices. And to hear established actors, and you think, 'Wow, that sounds like it's supposed to sound,' is great. They've got the right inflections, which is an enormous skill.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.