R. Madhavan Quotes

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

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• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Screen
  • Younger

• I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Control
  • Over
  • Screen

• All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Great
  • Want
  • Look

• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Artist

• Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

  

  Doris Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Projects

• 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Running
  • Green

• I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • School
  • Movies
  • Screen

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Scripts
  • Jacuzzi

• On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Think
  • Entertainment
  • Screen

• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Joy
  • Easy
  • Scripts

• That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Dream
  • Imagine
  • Screen

• I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Terrible
  • Screen
  • Take Care

• What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Made

• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Directors

• Our customer is the person whose household income is under $100,000, which is the majority of Americans. We created Acorns from the ground up to serve their best interests. We started with micro-investing, which allows them to invest their spare change. Once they get more engaged they can set recurring investments - $5 a day, $5 a week, for instance - whatever works for them.

  

  Noah Kerner
  • Interests
  • Customer
  • Investing

• Well, 'Grimm' is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.

  

  Reggie Lee
  • Important
  • Future
  • Support

• People always ask me if there was one thing they could do today to change the way they look and feel, what would it be. The answer is simple: Walk. To be exact, I want you to walk 10,000 steps a day.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • People
  • Walk
  • 10,000 steps

• You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Special

• All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Scripts
  • Screen
  • Good Story