Rich Sommer Quotes
Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.
Rich Sommer
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If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
Winona Ryder
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
When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.
Bill Murray
I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.
Jemaine Clement
I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)
Ally Carter
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
Shiloh Fernandez
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
Tony Scott
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
Bob Goff
As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the script page.
Harry Connick, Jr.
I let the scripts basically be my Bible.
David Nutter
I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.
Michael Caine
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
Wolfgang Petersen
