Quotes About Performance

I'm good with a script.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

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

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

I am doing films that are content-oriented and where I have the scope to perform. Rarely do such scripts happen.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.

I never choose scripts on the basis of whether the girl is like me. I don't want to play myself... I live with myself, and it isn't fun!

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

When you have the top show your scripts have to be more than competitive. They should be the best.

I did a musical episode of 'Scrubs.'

Those auditions - you sit down, and literally the whole time you're there, they scrutinize you, and you know that. But you can't take it personally.

If you don't score for a few games at Juve you are immediately under scrutiny.

I have been a part of stage shows, but yes, I do get cold feet when I think that every move of mine will be under scrutiny!

UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.