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“Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.”

Believe Written Series Scripts

Author:Michael Landon

“I learn the whole script before I show up.”

Whole Shows Majors Scripts

Author:Lee Majors

“A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.”

Mean Film Fall Scripts Traps Screenwriters Good Films Good Reads

Author:Peter Straughan

“No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.”

Matter Film Scripts Relative Twins Identical Identical Twin

Author:Peter Straughan

“About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.”

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Author:Evanna Lynch

“Dump ‘Em is the non-confrontationalist’s dream. With her easy-to-follow scripts and step-by-step plans, Jodyne Speyer provides a clear roadmap for ending even the most difficult relationships.”

Dream Easy Difficult Steps Clear Plans Scripts Ems Dump Difficult Relationship

Author:Marci Shimoff

“It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.”

Mind Moments Sun Rivers Opposites Rose Scripts Smell Plus Quantity Arithmetic Nothing New Proverbial Time Is Money Nothing New Under The Sun

Author:James Richardson

“On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.”

Happened Scripts

Book:Embracing Coincidence

Source: Embracing Coincidence

“When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.”

Trouble Terrible Scripts

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.”

Thinking Trying Speak Trouble Terrible Scripts Translate Hustle Laurels

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.”

Thinking Lines Roles Scripts

Author:Patricia Clarkson

“The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.”

Leadership Common Learning Balls Scripts Curriculum Karaoke Bouncing Ball

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'”

Thinking Knows World Writing Know How Written Strange Scripts Dozen

Author:Brian Helgeland

“I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.”

Might Film Scene Average Scripts

Author:Steven Zaillian

“When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.”

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Author:Stewart O'Nan

“Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist”

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Author:Genevieve Nnaji

“I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'”

Thinking Way Said I Can Jobs Can Do Love You Directors Deserve Scripts Honestly My Way I Love You Turned Down Deserve Better

Author:David Duchovny

“It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.”

Knows Hard Pages Scripts

Author:David Duchovny

“I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.”

Knows Character Shows Audience Scripts

Author:Anjelica Huston

“I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.”

Mean Made Jesus Stars Directors Died Scripts Studios Nasty

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.”

Thinking Want Trying Play Reading Given Position Listening Offers Projects Scripts

Author:Bryan Cranston

“You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.”

Ifs Wells Film Roles Stupid Scripts

Author:Beatrice Dalle

“Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'”

Should Play Difficult Drug Offers Lows Scripts Depressing Should I Addict Drug Addict

Author:Ellen Burstyn

“It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!”

Wonderful Perspective Scripts Terrific Nicholson

Author:Kathy Bates

“I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.”

Scripts Filmmaker Mediocre

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.”

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Author:Kelly Macdonald

“Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.”

Bits Secret Missing Pages Scripts Auditions Missing You

Author:Ian Hart

“Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.”

Thinking Self Action Awareness Habit Capacity Self Awareness Scripts Tendencies Motive Our Actions

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.”

Might Strong Opinion Hair Scripts Gentleman Shy Very Strong Loyal Fierce Casting Wardrobe Strong Opinions

Author:Stephen Collins

“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.”

Men Book Shows Memories Scripts Rays Gloss Book Of Life Ultraviolet

Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

“I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.”

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Author:Guy Oseary

“Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.”

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Author:Rhonda Byrne

“I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.”

Mind Book Might Reading Wish My Own Direct Scripts Convinced Reading Books Definite

Author:Paul Mazursky

“But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.”

Air Scripts Stuck Amsterdam

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.”

Writing Ideas My Own Window Scripts Eight Pilots

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.”

Ifs Moments Bigs Film Fantasy Horror Surprise Scripts Big Things Surprise Me Small Moments Fantasy Films

Author:Lance Henriksen

“Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.”

Writing Rocks Scripts Pioneering

Author:Courtney Love

“The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.”

Emotion Scripts

Author:Gregory Peck

“It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.”

Author:Bill Murray

“To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . . . it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.”

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Author:David Simon

“I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.”

Bigs Certain Intellectual Scripts Analysis

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.”

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Author:Katie Holmes

“I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.”

Scripts Now And Then Tweak Html

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“You stick to the script, the script is Bible.”

Author:Jennifer Garner

“We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.”

Looks Persons Real Wise Written Paper Illusion Scripts Look Up Unreal Real You Wise Person

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.”

Thinking Stories Today Life Is Scripts Meant To Be Epic Live For Today Epic Stories

Author:Robin Sharma

“If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.”

Author:Dan Castellaneta