quotes 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 -
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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 -
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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 ZeitlinSource : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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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 -
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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 BronsonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.
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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 -
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Casting is very, very important.
-- Ciaran HindsSource : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2010.
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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 FoleySource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 15, 2009.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 ChungSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
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I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
-- Jay London -
I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
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We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
-- John BrunnerSource : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media
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Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.
-- John Selden -
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
-- Jonathan FrakesSource : "An In-Depth Interview with Jonathan Frakes". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 27, 2004.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
-- Karen Gillan -
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
-- Kate ChopinSource : 1899 The Awakening, ch.19.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
-- Laura Linney -
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I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.
-- Leonard NimoySource : Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010
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People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.
-- Linda Hunt -
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
-- Lionel Blue -
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
-- Maddie HassonSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.
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Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future
-- Mari Evans -
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
-- Mario Lopez -
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
-- Martin Puryear -
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People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
-- Missi Pyle -
When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
-- Naomi Campbell -
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
-- Norman Fell -
I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
-- Pink -
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
-- Rafe Spall -
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
-- Rebel Wilson -
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Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
-- Richard WilburSource : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
-- Rupert SandersSource : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
-- Ruth Ozeki -
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A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
-- Sandra Oh -
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
-- Scott Speedman -
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
-- Sophocles -
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
-- Stellan Skarsgard -
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You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
-- Stephen RootSource : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.
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Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
-- Steve Buscemi -
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
-- Steven Bochco -
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Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
-- Stockard ChanningSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.
-- Summer GlauSource : Source: collider.com
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The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.
-- Susan Nattrass -
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
-- Tanith Lee -
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
-- Ted Allen -
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
-- Todd Solondz -
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
-- Victoria Gotti -
Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.
-- William Monahan -
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I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.
-- Dan TrachtenbergSource : Source: www.empireonline.com
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Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.
-- Doug Liman -
I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.
-- Doug Liman -
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
-- Francesca GregoriniSource : Source: collider.com
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It is so cool to have a fanbase that has been so involved since the casting process.
-- Jade HassouneSource : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
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For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.
-- Jen McGowanSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.
-- Joseph McGinty Nichol -
You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
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It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.
-- Nathalie Emmanuel -
For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.
-- Paul Gillin -
The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
-- Pawel Pawlikowski -
[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."
-- Rudolf Buitendach -
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Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.
-- Steven J Lawson -
The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...
-- Brad Furman -
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
-- Brent Sexton -
It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.
-- Atticus ShafferSource : Source: jimhalterman.com
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There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
-- Paul Revere -
I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
-- Craig BrewerSource : Source: collider.com
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
-- Curtis HansonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
-- David MichodSource : Source: collider.com
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Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through.
-- Susan Seidelman -
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.
-- Jason Blum -
Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.
-- Jenji KohanSource : Source: collider.com
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I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
-- John LandgrafSource : Source: collider.com
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