Quotes About Scripts

Working for several years as a waitress, you learn really quickly a couple of default scripts, so you know exactly what the interaction is going to be when the person sits down at the table.

I never had a boundary as an actor and I am open to interesting scripts.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

'Death In Paradise' is my dream job - a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

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 .

that material presents 'testing' as: "start spending 100% of my time on the project, formally writing a test strategy, approach, and plan, and writing test cases and scripts which are cross referenced to the requirements, even though the requirements are changing and therefore much of the 'testing' would lead to waste and rework

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

I write scripts, I read scripts, I meet people who chat about their scripts. So honestly, I don't feel bad if I don't act in a film, as long as people are making great films.

I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.