Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigel Lythgoe

We're casting a show here where we want unique people to take back to Hollywood,

Marsha Thomason

A well known director wouldn't take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn't taken the chance with me.

Scott Rudin

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

Marlee Matlin

I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.

Ruth Ozeki

I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

Liev Schreiber

My model of casting comes from Eastern Europe and part of the ideology there is that culture and place are essential,

Alexa Vega

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

E. B. White

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Andrew Rannells

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

Kara Swisher

Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Dave Foley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Cary Fukunaga

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.

Kaya Scodelario

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.

Sharlto Copley

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

Bruce Beresford

I have some director friends who have said that they don't really like working with actors - directors who have said 'I wish they would just get on with it. I don't want to talk to them,' which always struck me as strange because I certainly like talking to actors and I have spent a long time casting them.

Dito Montiel

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

Hans Kung

There's no use casting doubt on (scientific) results with some little problems, as the intelligent-design people or the creationists do. What's there is there. A theologian should not cast doubt on a scientific consensus, but see how he can deal with it.

Ralph Macchio

I have yet to be involved in a casting situation like that before or since,

Carla Gallo

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

Dick Van Patten

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

Kathie Gifford

Being a member of 'The Insider' family gives me an opportunity to do what I know, television, with what I love, theater. I'm looking forward to finally casting a well-deserved spotlight on the world of theater. And it's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

David Kelley

Casting is a very inexact process. What we were missing on this show was the office politic.

Casting for roles is much more ruthless for females than for males. Men tend to have an easier time of it.

Plato

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Martin Puryear

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

Ruby Rose

The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.

William Wordsworth

And so the grandeur of the Forest-treeComes not by casting in a formal mould,But from its own divine vitality.

Martin Scorsese

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Joan Severance

Other people can see me however they wish, but it's obviously just something visual that pops into the casting director's head and that's it.

Autumn Reeser

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

Craig Foster

There's been many a smiling angler casting a line.

Henrik Ibsen

As you can see, I'm a button-moulder. / You must go into my casting ladle.