Orson Welles

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

American Actor

Viola Davis

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

American Actress

Steven Spielberg

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

American Director

Dakota Fanning

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Cher

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

American Musician

Ali Wong

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

Bette Davis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Saswata Chatterjee

I do not accept a character or a script that I do not like.

Victoria Pratt

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

Canadian Actress

Tom Bateman

It always comes down to script and characters.

English Actor

Used for scripts that actors, directors, or performers study and execute during performances.

Performance Context

'Script' often refers to how books or stories are adapted into movies or TV series.

Film Adaptations

Scripts include specific directions for actors, such as emotions, movements, or tone.

Direction Precision

Script as handwriting can be unique to each person and may reflect individual personality.

Personal Style

Different historical periods had distinct script styles we learn about in artwork and documents.

Historical Scripts

Scripts in computing often automate repetitive tasks to save time and reduce error.

Task Automation

In computing, a script is less complex than a full software application and often written in scripting languages.

Simple Programs

Computer scripts can perform tasks on demand, like running analysis or computing data.

Technical Instructions

In the USA, 'script' is a colloquial term for a medical prescription used informally.

Healthcare Jargon

A 'script' in medical context authorizes the patient to collect medicine from a pharmacy.

Medication Authorization

 Herbivores time their births to coincide with the rains, as there's then much more lush grass to eat to raise their young. By all giving birth around the same time, there's less chance of your offspring being the one to get eaten by a predator. As a wildlife cameraman, I'm always on the lookout for interesting behaviours, even if they're not strictly on the script.

Fatal Encounter with...

 for life now isn't that that's just nice you know it's nice to hear that and they will live in the same den for years unless forced out by larger more horrifying heels but anyway can can the producers of this show just let me read a nice butterfly script or something next time I feel like I'm just getting all of the horrifying creatures that are gonna

Meet the Intimidating...

 cities play to that advantage and as the world has gotten more complex the need for the face-to-face contact that enables us to communicate the most complicated ideas becomes even more critical anyone who has ever taught know the hard part of teaching is not knowing your script it's understanding whether

It’s time to embrace our...

 probably learned their lines from a script, which essentially tells them what to say and when to say it. A piece of written music operates on exactly the same principle. In a very basic sense, it tells a performer what to play and when to play it. Aesthetically speaking, there's a world of difference

How to read music - Tim...

 The letters are varied in style and height. Some are borrowed from other scripts, but many are unique. The taller letters have been named gallows characters. The manuscript is highly decorated throughout with scroll-like embellishments. It appears to be written by two or more hands,

The world’s most...

 And we had put a camera in the gripper of the hand of the robot, and we wrote some special scripts and software, so that anyone in the world could come in, and by clicking on the screen, they could move the robot around and visit the garden.

Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...

 in order to break down those barriers of administrative torpor in the hospital, to get something for your mom or your child. What are these free traits? They're where we enact a script in order to advance a core project in our lives.

Who are you, really? The...

 So many people in distress have said this, but why? What kind of hero do we need and do we even really even need a hero at all? Well, if you look at any piece of literature written for page, script, or stage, the answer is yes!

A host of heroes - April...

 you make a plan and then you expect none of that to happen and then you have another plan because inevitably wildlife doesn't read off a script and it doesn't do always what it's supposed to do on time and we live in such

The Elusive Iberian Lynx...

 As an actor, I get scripts and it's my job to stay on script, to say my lines and bring to life a character that someone else wrote. Over the course of my career, I've had the great honor