Always Quote by Anna Karina

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration…

— Griffin Dunne

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the…

— Masiela Lusha

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's…

— Charlize Theron

The secrets that the characters hold are held back from the audience, and that's such a delight to hold onto. When you're playing scenes,…

— Tom Hughes

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then…

— Mohanlal

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh,…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan…

— Stan Laurel

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

— Lorrie Moore

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can…

— Mary Steenburgen

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single…

— Steven Soderbergh