Scripts Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And I've never even met a Sookie in my life. Sookie on 'Gilmore Girls' was played by Melissa McCarthy. And Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, is number one on the call sheet on 'True Blood.' Somebody should write another script with a Sookie in it.

  Todd Lowe

  Girl, Writing, Blood

  "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.

  Russell T Davies

  Heart, Thinking, Interesting

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• You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

  Stephen Lang

  Trying, Ifs

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• I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Fiction, World, Want

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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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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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• Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

  David Mamet

  Materials

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

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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 improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

  Bill Murray

  Nice, Writing, Mean

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• 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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• I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea, and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

  Roberto Aguire

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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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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• The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.

  Bryan Cranston

  Class, Actors, Done

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2012.

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• 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 read it through again and look at the character.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Looks, Stories

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• Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Black, Want

  "David Oyelowo On Acting, His Royal Roots And The One Role He Won't Take". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2015.

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

  Evan Daugherty

  Hollywood, Written

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