Top 153 Scripted Quotes & Sayings

With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

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.

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.

'Bigg Boss' is not at all scripted. Though sometimes it seems that fights between the contestants are already pre-planned but living for over two months in the show, I know that nothing is planned and scripted.

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.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.

Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.

'Big Bang' is very tightly scripted. Because we shoot in front of a live audience, it's basically like doing a filmed piece of theatre, really.

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.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I don't smile or talk before 10 A.M. unless it's scripted.

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.

'Crashing' was my first scripted TV gig.

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.

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.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

I feel my free-est when I don't know where I'm going, when I'm not scripted, and doing crazy things.

'The State' had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don't know how we would have scripted 'Reno.'

One host I love watching is Billy Crystal. His hosting was never scripted, it was organic.

Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

The reality television shows are a big hit with the masses with their Bollywood songs. Even if these TV shows are scripted, people are watching them.

'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.

I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.

Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

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.

'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.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

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.

The 'Bachelor' producers have scripted and are responsible for certain events: the first moon landing, the end of the cold war, Astro-turf, and the Internet (sorry, Al Gore, it was us). But we are not responsible for, nor have we ever scripted, the ending of this show.

I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

The way Apatow works, you do it scripted a couple times, and then he just kind of lets you go and improvise.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

I grew up babysitting and watching TRL after school. But the fact that I'm part of the whole new scripted development program that they're trying to launch is really awesome.

'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

It doesn't make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it's not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them.

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.

I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but when guys talk, it's like, 'Say this. Yeah, come out and say that.' Like, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm going to say what's on my mind. I'm going to say what's on my heart. It's just genuine speaking.

There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.