Scripts Quotes · Page 23

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines. Cause life is a movie that I've seen too many times

— Lil Wayne

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

— Tara Strong

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest

— Berenice Bejo

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

— Nina Arianda

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

— Pete Postlethwaite

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not…

— Michael Caine

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

— Chris O'Dowd

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love…

— Ethan Hawke

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,…

— Neil Jordan

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only…

— Sophie Nelisse

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene.…

— John Schlesinger

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

— Lorene Scafaria

Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted…

— J. J. Abrams

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who…

— Anita Loos

When I'd read the script [The Man], [ Eugene Levy] that's who I'd seen in my mind. When I ran into him,…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting…

— Lukas Haas

The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the…

— Brock Yates

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that…

— Christopher Nolan

I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or…

— Eva Mendes

Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't…

— Gary Gulman

I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I…

— Rose McIver

I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think…

— Lone Scherfig

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

— Max von Sydow

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't understand scripts really well, but I do whatever my heart tells me.

— Shriya Saran

After listening to several scripts, I zeroed in on director Hanu Raghavapudi's script and that's how 'Lie' happened.

— Nithiin

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

— Denzel Washington

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

— Hans Zimmer

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

— Naomi Watts

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

— Marisa Coughlan

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

— Clive Owen

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

Well, honestly I have never been very good at judging scripts.

— Shriya Saran

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

— Atul Kulkarni

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

— Dick Van Dyke

To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

— Miranda July

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza