Always Quote by Viggo Mortensen

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page…

— Viggo Mortensen

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

— Sydney Sweeney

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading…

— Chris Messina

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out…

— Miranda Otto

I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

— Judi Dench

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to…

— Lorraine Toussaint

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all…

— Viola Davis

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from…

— Joel Grey

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go…

— Barbara Mertz

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and…

— Colm Meaney