Top 40 Well-Written Quotes

And it was the idea that you can do a play – like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever – and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn’t you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

It’s so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

A good part’s a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.

‘The Slap’ is not like anything else. It’s an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It’s a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

Women are given their due, and I think female-centric roles are also well-written. But it doesn’t matter who is in the centre – a male or female. As long as it is an entertaining, gripping film, people just enjoy it.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn’t been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan’s very human characters help us do that.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There’s all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there’s a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like ‘Dallas.’ It’s pure entertainment.

I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it’s a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn’t have a race and that is kind of open to any sort of interpretation. I completely understand that, but at the same time, I just want Asian characters that are well-written.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it’s not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won’t be good.

If I feel like it’s a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it’s something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written – as well as most movies that are released – are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Any role that is well-written, exciting and something that I am comfortable with interests me whether it’s comic or tragic. It could be in a film, play or TV.

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff – not to say I wouldn’t want to do a comedy if the right comedy came along… I’m an actor in Los Angeles, and I have a family I have to support.

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we’ve had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

Well-written words are music.

I’m disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

There’s a book called ‘You’re Not a Stranger Here’ by Adam Haslett – short stories, a lot of them are about mental illness and gay people – that classic combination. But they’re really well-written, really powerful. It’s pretty good.

I abhor badly-written characters and any character, be it man, woman, any character in the film. If it is a well-written character, it will come across as strong.

I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about… being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I’d like to do more well-written indies. I don’t know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it’s somewhere within that realm.

As an actor, I would never agree if a newcomer doesn’t give me a final word on the script. If it is well-written, then you need not speak to me. I will speak for you.

A lot of actors, we aren’t that special; you get a well-written scene, and it’s virtually actor-proof.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read ‘Just Kids’ and it’s an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

For an actor, his job becomes easy, when his character is described well on the paper. With a well-written role, it becomes simpler to design and understand your character.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

‘A Just Defiance’ has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.

I’m fine with playing the protagonist’s mother, mother-in-law or friend – as long as my role is well-written.

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it’s well-written, that’s a bonus. But we don’t often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That’s what I’m very interested in.

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time – and being able to call that ‘work!’ Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

I love character-driven, well-written, great storytelling types of films, and I think that ‘My Cousin Vinny’ just hit the nail on the head with everything. It’s one of those movies that, if I’m flipping through the channels, no matter what part it’s on, I can watch it. It’s just one of my favorites.

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director’s not an idiot, they’re going to sign up and do some acting.

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the character justifies this and that can only be for a well-written character.

In my latest ‘Mirzapur,’ I had no pressure actually to match up the level of other people in terms of performance because all of our characters were well-written. So there was no sense of insecurity.

I would be surprised though if I don’t get unbelievable critical acclaim for ‘Dirty Picture’ and a national award for my actress, Vidya Balan. The movie has one of the most well-written scripts I have come across, and a lot of youngsters in my office have looked at it with great admiration.