Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Bill Watterson

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

Bill Watterson

We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Al Pacino

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

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Duchovny

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

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

Bill Murray

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

Ben Affleck

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

Alan Parker

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Alan Arkin

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Chris Burke

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Chloe Grace Moretz

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Eddie Murphy

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.