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“I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.”

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Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.”

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Author:Jack Wagner

“When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.”

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Author:Jessica Walter

“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

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Author:Matt Walsh

“I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.”

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Author:Mike White

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

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Author:Sela Ward

“For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.”

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Author:Sonya Walger

“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.”

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Author:David Yates

“My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.”

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Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.”

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Author:Taylor Lautner

“You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.”

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Author:Janet McTeer

“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.”

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Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.”

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Author:William Mapother

“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'”

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Author:Breckin Meyer

“When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'”

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Author:Fred Melamed

“With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.”

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Author:Kevin Whately

“I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.”

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Author:Merritt Wever

“I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.”

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Author:Peter Weller

“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.”

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Author:Rebel Wilson

“I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.”

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Author:Natalie Zea

“I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.”

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Author:Steve Zahn

“In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.”

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Author:Michael B. Jordan

“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.”

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Author:Phil Collins

“If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!”

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Author:Terrence Malick

“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.”

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Author:Jonas Mekas

“My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.”

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Author:Dawn French

“I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!”

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Author:Zoe Kazan

“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”

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Author:Joe Johnston

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

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Author:Rian Johnson

“I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.”

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Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.”

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Author:Jason Gann

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

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Author:Victoria Legrand

“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.”

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Author:Steve McFadden

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

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Author:Tionne Watkins

“I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.”

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Author:Barbara Billingsley

“There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.”

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Author:Marc Cherry

“I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.”

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Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.”

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Author:Rae Dawn Chong

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