Scripts Quotes - Page 21

• 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

  Theatre, Care, Bigs

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Cameras

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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Mean, Directors, Different

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• I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

  Emile Hirsch

  Trying, Genre, Staying

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• When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Judging, Mind

  "Penelope Cruz Interview Broken Embraces". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Parent, Age

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• I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

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• The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

  Judi Dench

  Firsts, Lord, Theater

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• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Actors, Useless

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

  Christina Ricci

  Directors, Fit, Should

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• I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

  Lily Rabe

  Thinking, Want, Panic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Tvs, Freak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

  Hugo Weaving

  Appeals, Ifs

  "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

  Anushka Sharma

  Careers, House, Roles

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• Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.

  Antony Starr

  Flames, Giving, Feelings

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• Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

  Ron Kaufman

  Team, Writing, Service Culture

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• I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

  George Michael

  Stupid, Writing, Done

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• Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Seven Months, Schedules

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• I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Reading, Character, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson Enters the Bridge to Terabithia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

  Jason Statham

  Essentials, Kind, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

  Kurt Fuller

  Way, Good Enough, Be Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Running, Believe, Reality

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

  Rob Zombie

  Writing, Mainstream, Stills

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

  Rian Johnson

  Notebook, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

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