Arrogance Quote by Mary Steenburgen

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to…

— Jessica Alba

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

— Travis Fimmel

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so…

— Anonymous

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's…

— Paul Rudd

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good…

— Kenya Barris

What a good actor brings to a script is something, sometimes, even directors can't imagine. The director should always have the last say though.

— Zoya Akhtar

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse…

— Mark Duplass

As an actor, I would never agree if a newcomer doesn't give me a final word on the script. If it is well-written, then…

— R. Madhavan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring…

— Eddie Marsan

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

— Neve McIntosh

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

— Patrick Huard