Scripts Quotes · Page 14

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

— Ayshay

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

— Oprah Winfrey

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

— Gena Rowlands

The beauty with U.K. productions is that, most of the time, you get all of the scripts when you audition for them.

— Wunmi Mosaku

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

— Alex Kurtzman

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

— Patricia Heaton

After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do…

— Julia Sawalha

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on…

— David Anders

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s…

— Tom Stoppard

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great…

— Amanda Bynes

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were…

— Michael Mann

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script,…

— Paul Mazursky

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really…

— Jamie Bell

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there.…

— Marc Cherry

The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think…

— Todd Farmer

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and…

— Sally Phillips

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and…

— Evanna Lynch

You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as…

— Damian Lewis

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I…

— Ezra Miller

Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs…

— Nancy Pelosi

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know…

— Sally Hawkins

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today,…

— Donna Douglas

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

— Carlton Cuse

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

— Sam Shepard

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.

— Casey Wilson

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

— Elisha Cuthbert

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

— JoBeth Williams

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

— Gena Rowlands

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

— Cameron Diaz

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

— Fatih Ak?n

Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.

— Neha Dhupia

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

— Kellie Martin

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

— Ewan McGregor

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

— Michael Gerber

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

— Curtis Hanson

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

— Paula Wagner

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to…

— Jessica Walter