Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Pratt

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

James Bond

Now the choice has finally been made, you've put the story on the front page and produced the sort of collection of special reports that usually accompanies a major news event, not the announcement of the casting of one tired old film role.

Sigrid Agren

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

Carol Williams

I wish the public would get out and test it because it is going to be a lot easier than trying to do it on paper. You can't make a mistake on it. You can't over vote. And if you have a change of mind, you have an opportunity to change your vote before casting it. I think it is a great thing for Gregg County. Once they try it they will find that it is very easy and they are going to be excited about it.

David S. Goyer

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

Catherine Tate

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Taye Diggs

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

Vinessa Shaw

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

Elizabeth Warren

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Kate McAteer

No one is going to pay you just so you can pay your bills. They want to know what kind of job you'll do and why they should hire you in particular.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Charles Munger

I would rather throw a viper down my shirtfront than hire a compensation consultant.

Tony Dungy

I did not know Rod at all when I hired him. I got his name and talked to him on the phone. That's all I needed.

David Young

I'd like to see proper construction practices on those sites. I would like to see them hire local people, local labor.

Willie Geist

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

Laurie Levenson

Now they can walk away and say he didn't get away with it.

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Deepak Chopra

Walk with those seeking truth...

Abraham Lincoln

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Abraham Lincoln

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Greg Darnell

If they walked up to me today, I wouldn't know them.

Sergei Lavrov

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Yotam Ottolenghi

The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.