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“I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"”

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Author:Alex Pettyfer

“I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.”

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Author:David Wenham

“I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.”

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Author:Ray Winstone

“When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.”

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Author:Dominic Monaghan

“Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.”

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Author:James Wolk

“There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.”

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Author:James Wolk

“I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.”

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Author:Charlie Hunnam

“When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.”

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Author:David Tennant

“I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.”

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Author:Topher Grace

“The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.”

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Author:Topher Grace

“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.”

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Author:Wallace Shawn

“You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.”

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Author:Joanne Froggatt

“For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.”

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Author:Michelle Dockery

“I get so excited about reading a new script.”

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Author:Michelle Dockery

“Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.”

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Author:Laura Carmichael

“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. 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.”

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Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.”

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Author:Michael Strahan

“A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?"”

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Author:Gillian Jacobs

“The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.”

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Author:Kellie Martin

“People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'”

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Author:Toby Jones

“There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.”

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Author:Toby Jones

“I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.”

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Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.”

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Author:Casey Wilson

“Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.”

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Author:Gene Wilder

“Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.”

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Author:Valerie Cruz

“I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.”

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Author:Natascha McElhone

“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.”

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Author:Cathy Moriarty

“Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.”

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Author:Cathy Moriarty

“I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.”

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Author:Amelia Warner

“Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.”

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Author:Luke Pasqualino

“I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!”

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Author:Tippi Hedren

“When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.”

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Author:Jeff Garlin

“If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.”

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Author:Kareena Kapoor

“I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.”

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Author:Charlie Tahan

“I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.”

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Author:Ed Asner

“The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.”

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Author:Sam Lake

“I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.”

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Author:Judi Shekoni

“I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And I've never even met a Sookie in my life. Sookie on 'Gilmore Girls' was played by Melissa McCarthy. And Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, is number one on the call sheet on 'True Blood.' Somebody should write another script with a Sookie in it.”

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Author:Todd Lowe

“Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.”

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Author:Russell T Davies

“Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.”

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Author:Aaron Ashmore

“You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.”

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Author:Stephen Lang

“I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.”

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Author:Kirby Bliss Blanton

“I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.”

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Author:Anushka Sharma

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