Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Alexander

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

I think there'll be a little more depth in the market and it will be an important week. We've been stuck in a trading range, certainly in bonds. I think we'll have more people with more money casting more of a vote. That'll be important.

Kenneth Turan

I think this film makes news casting really exciting. It's a film that really holds you because it's an enormous dramatic conflict.

Scott Michael Foster

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

Sierra McCormick

I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Laura Wasser

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

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.

Andrew Marvell

Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.

Kimberley Nixon

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face.

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.

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.

Shannon Elizabeth

Had that casting director not called me back, had those producers not liked me or those directors... everything happened for a reason.

Cameron Diaz

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

The profit warning from Sun Micro is casting somewhat of a shadow over the European markets.

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.

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.

Archie Panjabi

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

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.

Bill Hader

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.

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.

Finn Wittrock

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

Dylan Penn

When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.

Steve Kanaly

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

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.

Luke Rhinehart

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

Dan Harmon

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Bryan Fuller

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they were really nice to me. At the end of the day, I'm proud of myself because a lot of people can't go up on a stage and talk in front of thousands of people.

Claudette Colbert

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

Keith Andrews

I would have to see a preview (of Lei) before casting judgment on Kelleher's game. The general feeling of my colleagues is that it tends to relax you.