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“I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole”

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Author:Josh Lucas

“I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only person I saw was my trainer. Every day I did a lot of running and I just didn’t want to talk to anyone for two months. So when I started talking again, it was like you would communicate wrongly, like you wouldn’t really remember how to speak. That was one of the key things as well as just reading the book, reading the script a million times, just figuring things out.”

“When you read the [Twilight series], it's like saying 'Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do it. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year old virgin, so there's clearly some issues there”

Thinking Years Mean Persons Play Beautiful Guy Hate Actors Lines Issues Aspect Series Scripts Ridiculous Hated Plus Twilight Virgins This Guy Manic Depressive Twilight Series

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Said Stories Remember Guy Laughing Okay Scripts Italian Spells Embarrassed Remember When Chai

Author:Teri Garr

“I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.”

Wells Play Able Sides Lucky Luck Scripts Charming Mischievous

Author:Cobie Smulders

“I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.”

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Author:Jaimie Alexander

“If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.”

Ifs Thinking May Book Character Stories Film Imagination Scripts Mood Kicks

Author:Miranda Otto

“Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.”

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Author:Barret Oliver

“As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision”

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Author:Chris Cooper

“A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.”

Film Reading Scripts Fortunate My Time Hobbies Consuming

Author:Felicity Jones

“Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.”

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Author:Joe Morton

“I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.”

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Author:Marguerite Moreau

“The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.”

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Author:Robert Carlyle

“So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.”

Trying Real Happens Serious Scripts Real Life

Author:Shailene Woodley

“When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.”

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Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.”

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Author:Lena Olin

“Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.”

People Firsts Real Character Stories Names Pages Let Me Meetings Scripts Auditions

Author:Dakota Fanning

“I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.”

Concerned Scripts Sequels

Author:JoBeth Williams

“I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.”

Thinking Might Lessons And Love Mark Scripts Filmmaker Interviews

Author:Shiloh Fernandez

“I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.”

Years Play Age Groups Males Scripts Driven Demographics

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.”

Products Scripts Rejection Cosmetics

Author:Morgan Brittany

“When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level”

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Author:Parker Posey

“I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon”

Done Enough Guy Comedy Six Scripts

Author:Tom Berenger

“I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me”

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Author:Tom Berenger

“My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.”

Ifs Wells Keys Scripts

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.”

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Author:Mariska Hargitay

“Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?”

Knows Writing Christian Film Know How Stupid Scripts

Author:Victoria Jackson

“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.”

Want Moving Guy Acting Scripts Lists

Author:Stephen Rea

“I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.”

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Author:Marina Sirtis

“Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.”

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.”

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Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.”

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Author:Shane Black

“I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.”

Should Trying Kind Character Directors Notes Scripts Shade

Author:Dennis Farina

“I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.”

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Author:Dennis Farina

“While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.”

Thinking Giving Use Common Taste Give Me Scripts Performers Precision Brecht

Author:David Antin

“If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.”

Ifs Actors Challenges Scripts Adore

Author:Sidney Lumet

“Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk”

People Knows May Voice Walks Like You Personality Creating Scripts Ulysses

Author:James Joyce

“With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.”

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Author:Akira Kurosawa

“Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.”

“If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.”

Ifs May Moments Sticks Scripts Thought Provoking Elsewhere Provoking Leading Me

Author:Francis Chan

“Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.”

People Thinking Matter Character Facts Talking Break Laughing Tears Scripts Breakup Why Not Shed Provoking Flawed Break Up People Talking

Author:Michael Fassbender

“I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.”

Firsts Reading One Day Garden Thirds Lays Scripts Umbrella Turned Down

Author:Conrad Veidt

“Good scripts are hard to find.”

Hard Scripts

Author:Daniel Craig

“I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.”

Play Character Interesting Lows Scripts Budgets Interesting Characters

Author:Walter Koenig

“I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me much deeper psychological and emotional insight into Lissa than the script.”

Firsts Book Wanted Roles Five Emotional Scripts Deeper Insight Psychological Preparing

Author:Lucy Fry

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