If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.
I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.
Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.
Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.