act or, strongl erformer, so it is great. tavis: since you mentioned poetry and literature, i am curious. what do you like to read? i am curious about what is on your bedside table or in your library. becket, of yeats, joyce. i was just talking to somebody the other day about some shakespeare, maybe doing shakespeare on film. chekhov, i love checkoff. -- chekhov. you not?w could >> the filmmakers now are such powerful young people because they write, produce, direct. they do it all. we were talking about doing "waiting for godot" in the hills of malibu. tavis: i would come see that. >> to stay alive as an actor, reading scripts you fall off the twig pretty quickly, so try to stay in tune with the works that stuck to your own heart or tapestry in life as an act or. this. maybe i missed have you done shakespeare onstage before? >> never. had.: i did not think you why not? >> it never showed it self. ien i came here to america steele, and everything took off. i did not have the desire to go back on stage. as i got older i watche