Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.
There are scripts I've read where I really like the character but there might be some content that I'm uneasy with. You have to make the decision whether you want to put that out there.
I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble,