Michael Ealy Quotes

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.

I would love to do films, but the script has to excite me.

Whenever I like a character or a script, I take up the project and leave the rest to the audience.

I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

I am open to doing cinema as long as I find the script right.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.

I am mostly concerned about the script. If I get something that excites me, I will do it.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'