Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Ryan

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

Michael Caine

How can I change me to suit the script?

Michael Caine

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Mel Tillis

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Melissa McBride

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Morgan Freeman

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

John Travolta

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

Emmy Rossum

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

Jon Hurwitz

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Tim Burton

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Robert Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Sanjay Dutt

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

William H. Macy

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

William H. Macy

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Goldwyn

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Ralph Fiennes

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

Liam Neeson

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Sela Ward

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

Lee Majors

I learn the whole script before I show up

Sam Elliott

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

Sally Phillips

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Shane West

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

Simon Pegg

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

Steve McFadden

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Sigourney Weaver

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

Tim Robbins

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

Steven Spielberg

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.