Top 60 Scripted Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Scripted Quotes from famous people such as Benny Fine, Ralph Macchio, Anita Hassanandani Reddy, R. J. Cutler, Flavor Flav, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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We have a full writers’ room, and with something like ‘MyMusic,’ we’ve scripted it out with professional writers. There is some very basic improv from the actors, but everything is very to the letter, so it’s easy to edit down to an episode. There are fun little things an actor might throw in there.
Benny Fine
I’ve come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
Ralph Macchio
If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it’s scripted, it’s not a problem. I can manage.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
We’re having such a great time on ‘Nashville’ that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
R. J. Cutler
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can’t remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
Flavor Flav
My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.
Rudy Giuliani
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
Barbara Walters
I’m not a big ‘scripted comedy’ person necessarily. I’m open for wherever comedy can be found.
Jonathan Krisel
We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we’re all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I’m excited to do is to get to explore that.
Channing Dungey
One host I love watching is Billy Crystal. His hosting was never scripted, it was organic.
Sajid Khan
‘SVU’ is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
Taylor Hicks
Even though you’re filming something and it’s all scripted, there’s still a sense of ritual about it because you’re filming a ritual. It has all these little details that you want to capture, and a very specific mood and tone.
Jeremy Podeswa
‘Crashing’ was my first scripted TV gig.
Jermaine Fowler
When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn’t grown at the same rate. So I think there’s a bit of a creative tax on the system.
Nancy Dubuc
In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don’t plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.
Mohanlal
I’m just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that’s scripted and you have to do it over and over again to get every angle – it’s fascinating to me. I would love to do a little acting.
Maren Morris
I like – there’s a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything’s scripted and everything’s planned what you’re going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there’s a feeling that anything could happen.
Todd Phillips
‘Dinner’ is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I’m not interested in pranking people. It’s more like a play than standup.
Brett Gelman
You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they’re not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don’t have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It’s an ideological tool.
Raoul Peck
When I meet somebody in the street who knows about ‘Humans of New York,’ a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.
Brandon Stanton
Bitcoin offers one service: securely time-stamped, scripted transactions. Everything else is built on the edge-devices as an application. Bitcoin allows any application to be developed independently, without permission, on the edge of the network.
Andreas Antonopoulos
It’s pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that’s the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.
Bobby Keys
After doing ‘Life After Beth,’ which I think had one line that wasn’t scripted, everything was scripted so that it sounds natural, and I went to such great lengths to create dialogue and to come across the way that people wouldn’t sound like they were on the nose.
Jeff Baena
My biggest problem in my life is I’m cheap and I didn’t hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.
Robert Pattinson
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you’re a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
Mike White
Acting is really scary, but it’s also challenging, fun, hard work. There’s always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
Michael Pitt
I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
Adam Johnson
I was at an ESPN event in the United States, the awards ceremony, and I got approached by the WWE. I had just retired, and, it’s a form of competition, but of course, it’s also scripted, so I don’t know if I’d be willing to relive that. Perhaps for a special event, so I could taste it.
Georges St-Pierre
The rush into scripted video by tech giants is going to accelerate an evolution of entertainment that’s already underway. We’re already moving away from the idea that drama is a 60-minute exercise with four bathroom breaks.
Steven Levy
People with autism are extremely good at working… in a scripted environment, because that’s how they live their lives a lot of the time.
Brigette Lundy-Paine
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.
Skylar Astin
They say our lives are scripted in advance. We just pla

They say our lives are scripted in advance. We just play our part and fate intervenes in mysterious ways to ensure that no one deviates from the script. It was a wrong date of birth on my CISF interview call later that led me to my taking the train journey that changed the course of my life forever.
Arunima Sinha
I think most people, most rational people, most people that I would feel comfortable sitting in a room with, understand that wrestling is scripted entertainment. But they don’t want you to remind them of that.
Eric Bischoff
People ask me all the time, ‘Are you fed up with reality TV?’ At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can’t ever really knock them. I started on ‘Popstars,’ which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.
Josh Henderson
When I go in to ‘Comedy Bang Bang,’ I’ll go in most of the time with some beats of where we’re going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I’ll go in there with nothing and it’s just conversation with the character.
Paul F. Tompkins
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
James P. Carse
The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it’s in the moment, and it’s seeing what will happen. It’s not something that is scripted.
Nina Conti
If you’re locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn’t have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you’re not allowed to stray from that, you’re going to have a stilted scene.
Mark Duplass
There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.
Brooke Elliott
School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside scripted behavior becomes an opportunity for law enforcement to come in, criminalizing ordinary things people do every day.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I grew up in a time where on things like ‘The Red Skeleton Show’ or even to a certain extent on ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Lorne Michaels
I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It’s documentary! But unfortunately, it’s rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.
Justin Kirk
So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it’s a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that’s focused on positive family values.
Bill Rancic
We’d like to prearrange our life on all levels. We’d prefer it to be scripted. But it’s not.
William Hurt
‘Bigg Boss’ is the biggest reality show and it doesn’t need any gimmick to boost their TRP. Nothing is scripted in the show, everything goes with the flow.
Sara Khan
When you’re too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities – kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
Erin Gruwell
When I’ve done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there’s not much life behind it.
Grace Helbig