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Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God — Anonymous

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry. — Tena Desae

Thank God it wasn't beef jerky, or I might've ended up dead."

"The President's Neighbor" a comedy script by Brett Bacon. — Brett Bacon

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson. — Shailene Woodley

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent. — Domhnall Gleeson

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? — Tom Baker

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. — Christian Bale

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer. — Catherine Hardwicke

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success. — Tate Donovan

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures]. — Roberto Giobbi

The whole world was on a script of loss and people only received their pages moments before they read their lines. — Jarett Kobek

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them. — Shailene Woodley

To be successful, suspend your worries and your analytical thinking and just concentrate on reading the script as it is without any self-judgment. — Forbes Robbins Blair

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system. — Peter Hedges

You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame — The Script

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director. — Mathieu Demy

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

God says, "I have set before you an open door," not "I have set before you a finished script. — John Ortberg

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director. — Bette Davis

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script. — Jon Turteltaub

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. — The Script

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with. — Famke Janssen

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story. — Adam Schlesinger

He closed his glowing eyes and shook his head. "Yeah. It's fucking stupid. It's crazy. It's dangerous. So it'll fit right into your life script. — J.R. Ward

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script. — Melissa Rosenberg

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing. — Talib Kweli

The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script. — Tom McCarthy

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script. — Nina Arianda

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception. — Steven Shainberg

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film ... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script. — Bruce Glover

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. — Method Man

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that. — Gena Rowlands

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff. — Jason Bateman

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. — Domenico Dolce

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director. — Tahar Rahim

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person. — Dorothy McGuire

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough. — Jerry Bruckheimer

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is. — David Boreanaz

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie. — Harvey Keitel

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff. — Daniel Radcliffe

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script. — Elisha Cuthbert

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story. — Richard D. Zanuck

A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script. — Lake Bell

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

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. — Lauren Bacall

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday. — Al Pacino

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it. — Cary Elwes

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it? — Juno Temple

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

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently. — James Marsden

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story. — Alex Pettyfer

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task. — Michael Arndt

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing. — Bing Crosby

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. — Ron Finley

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script. — Sam Rockwell

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well. — Laura Carmichael

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. — Stella Adler

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

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. — Douglas Adams

After all, script is God. — Ruchi More

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

I'm good with a script. — Mayim Bialik

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

I'm not used to a script. — Ryan Seacrest

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. — Cliff Martinez

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. — Billy Boyd

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do. — Ida Lupino

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. — Viggo Mortensen

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do. — Luke Treadaway

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. — Pauly Shore

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving. — Adam Schlesinger

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself. — Preity Zinta

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, — Brian K. Vaughan

She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier. — Nick Hornby

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. — Dougray Scott

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to. — Heather Matarazzo

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part. — Eric McCormack

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better. — William Monahan

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing. — Tippi Hedren

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. — Anthony Hopkins

I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change. — Peter Segal

Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten. — Colette Freedman

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment. — David Wain

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made. — Jon Favreau

The only thing that works is a good script! — Kajol

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

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. — Gore Vidal

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it. — Jon Turteltaub

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. — Ginnifer Goodwin

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

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not. — Jennifer Coolidge

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time. — Ewan McGregor

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. — Alexander Payne

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good. — Patrick Huard