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I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

— Jane Campion

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

— Kriti Sanon

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

— D. B. Sweeney

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

— Katherine Helmond

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

— Tom McCarthy

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

— Lee Hall

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

— Jon Bernthal

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

— Tom Stoppard

✗Opposing Perspectives

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

— Richard Grant