Quotes and Sayings About Casting
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Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
-- Alan Keyes -
When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.
-- Alexa Vega -
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
-- Andrej Pejic -
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
-- Anna Lappe -
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
-- Archie Panjabi -
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
-- Barry Pepper -
Local casting is just something I love doing.
-- Benh Zeitlin -
I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!
-- Berenice Marlohe -
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
-- Cary Fukunaga -
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
-- Charles Bronson -
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.
-- Christopher Landsea -
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
-- Claudette Colbert -
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
-- Dave Foley -
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
-- David Morrissey -
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
-- David Prowse -
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
-- Diane Abbott -
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
-- Dorothy Stratten -
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
-- Gore Vidal -
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
-- Gus Van Sant -
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
-- Ian Fleming -
The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
-- Jamie Chung