Life Script Quotes

#1. He closed his glowing eyes and shook his head. "Yeah. It's fucking stupid. It's crazy. It's dangerous. So it'll fit right into your life script.

J.R. Ward

#2. When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life throws at me, I'm going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.' And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.

Nikki Rosen

#3. The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#4. You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

John Taylor Gatto

#5. Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life.

Jill Ker Conway

#6. Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Kirk Douglas

#7. I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

Steve Buscemi

#8. The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand.

She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for ours, for Nasheen. My life for a thousand.

Kameron Hurley

#9. For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

Dania Ramirez

#10. Your life is not so complicated. God has already written the script, casted the key players. It is when we try to re-write the plot that we encounter unnecessary drama. Accept the role God has chosen you to play. Faith in his direction will assure an Oscar worthy performance!

Carlos Wallace

#11. I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.

Cutter Hodierne

#12. We script our lives on reaction rather than action, meaning daily life is always in response to, or a reply to, a command or demand. The world uses us in that way...The world does this--holds us down.

Randall Horton

#13. If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Marguerite Moreau

#15. Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

Antonio Banderas

#16. Life is like a B-picture script.

Kirk Douglas

#17. The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.

Lil' Wayne

#19. People who made their dreams come true didn't simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#21. The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Eugene H. Peterson

#22. When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#23. I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.

Robert Schwentke

#24. Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

Dick Costolo

#25. Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Darlene Craviotto

#26. When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

Zadie Smith

#27. It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#28. Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.

Marcus Sedgwick

#29. Few people in one's life ever go quite away. They turn up again like characters in a Simon Raven novel. It is as if Fate is a movie producer who cannot afford to keep introducing new characters into the script but must get as many scenes out of every actor as possible.

Stephen Fry

#30. When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.

Pascal Chaumeil

#31. I'd trapped myself in a script ... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

David James Duncan

#32. There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

Merle Haggard

#33. I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.

Shailene Woodley

#34. Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

Jessica Valenti

#35. 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

#36. I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Todd Phillips

#37. I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

#38. I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

Walton Goggins

#39. Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

Robin Sharma

#40. Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#41. The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."

Jackie Chan

#42. People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#43. When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'

Betsy Brandt

#44. I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Steve Martin

#45. The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

Ewan McGregor

#46. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

Oprah Winfrey

#47. The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping.

Julia Garner

#48. Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Mark Batterson

#49. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.

Gina Greenlee

#50. I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

Cathy Moriarty

#51. I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

Jared Leto

#52. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#53. When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

David Tennant

#54. Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

The Script

#55. As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.

Eve Myles

#56. I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.

Bille August

#57. deep inside each one of us is the desire to write and control our own script of life.

Michelle Anthony

#58. I believe that you get to write part of the script of your life, and some of it is written by forces beyond your control.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#59. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.

Holly Sprink

#60. City lights shine bright on my complexion,
Self-reflection ... red hairs flashing at the intersection.
Life is a green light, one star, no script,
Supporting actors ... fresh peaches, no pit.

Action Bronson

#61. You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

D. A. Pennebaker

#62. And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

Jennifer Lawrence

#63. So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

Piper Perabo

#64. I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

Steve Zahn

#65. We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

J.R. Rim

#66. Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Walter Benjamin

#67. Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God

Anonymous

#68. There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

Shannon L. Alder

#69. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.

Kathryn Perez

#70. I love you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. Because when we are reborn, I will fall in love with you again and again and again.
- Faye Hall, from an untitled script

Faye Hall

#71. I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

Viggo Mortensen

#72. What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?
And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?

The Script

#73. They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

Kelly Macdonald

#74. For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#75. I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

Stephen Frears

#76. Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#77. All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.

William Monahan

#78. My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

Yuliya Snigir

#79. I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Rhianna Pratchett

#80. Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention ... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

Douglas Booth

#81. Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

Abbie Hoffman

#82. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.

V.C. Andrews

#83. You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

Errol Flynn

#84. Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?

Jai Courtney

#85. You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

Esther Hicks

#86. Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

John Travolta

#87. If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

Ravi Zacharias

#88. Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the checkpoints on every page.

Neetesh Dixit

#89. To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

Shailene Woodley

#90. As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

Clark Gregg

#91. I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script.

Jonathan Tropper

#92. There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Dick Costolo