Scripts Quotes

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
Lizzy Caplan

Yourself, Different, Find

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.
Sean Durkin

Find, Keep, Few

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.
Jonny Lee Miller

Good, Great, End

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
Jonny Lee Miller

Good, Mad, Looking

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
Bob Kane

Days, Story, Unique

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.
Richard Dean Anderson

Read, Actor, Normal

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
Kathy Bates

Working, Start, Complete

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Viola Davis

Age, Writing, Young

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
Mark Millar

Time, Writing, Proposals

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.
Dennis Muren

Good, Done, Give

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Aaron Spelling

Work, Time, Good

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
Garth Ennis

Busy, Start, Either

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
Stephen Rea

Good, Acting, Guy

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.
Burt Ward

Funny, Remember, Written

I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.
Michelle Forbes

Happy, True, Blood

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire

Work, Family, Money

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.
Josh Holloway

Work, Business, Trying

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.
Miranda Otto

Work, Family, Down

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
Colin Baker

Work, Good, Down

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
Pete Waterman

Great, Reality, Makes

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.
Steve Kanaly

Together, After, Show

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
Peter Dinklage

Time, Great, Strong

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
Colm Meaney

Love, Humor, Good

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
Claudia Christian

Good, Off, Continue

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.
Stephen Dorff

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.
Dean Cain

Movies, End, Living

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.
Linda Fiorentino

Involved, Terms

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
Sam Elliott

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
Sam Elliott

Career, Read, Motorcycle

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
Shirley Henderson

American, Talking

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