Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spalding Gray

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

Shahid Kapoor

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

Shonda Rhimes

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Is there a point where the adjustments become so large it casts doubt on the comparability?

Edie Falco

I spent a long time doing independent films, and I?d like to think I?m not getting cast because of the show, but because I?m right for the role.

Rob Lowe

I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.

Allison Anders

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

Bill Mumy

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.

Judy Greer

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.

Christopher Lee

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

David Petersen

Without trying to cast aspersions in any way on past management companies, I do think the Boykin people have done a very good job,

We wanted to cast the net out to the wider world.

We all feel very strongly that Elian's life will be destroyed if he is sent to the custody of Fidel Castro in Cuba. That's what this is about, protecting this child from harm.

Jon Favreau

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.

Ted Sarandos

We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

We think it's important to help restore people's confidence in the electoral system and give them proof that their vote was cast accurately,

Steve Mariucci

You go through some ups and downs, ... He's developed some thick skin, which is necessary at that position. Joey's a fighter and he keeps working at it. He's going to improve when his supporting cast improves.

At this point the die is cast for the season.

Consequently, you have to make pretty long casts because the fish can be spooked. It's a lot cleaner than West Lake.

Disney On Ice was a great success. It was the highest-grossing ticket sales event ever at the civic center. And, the Casting Crowns concert sold out.

Matthew Pearl

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

The revolving door is spinning out of control and it really casts Congress in a very negative light.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Rhea Perlman

There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and you got some chemistry going, even if a show is taking a little while to find an audience, if you keep it there, that audience will find it. Because that's what happened with 'Cheers.'

There's now considerable public skepticism about whether all those being executed are really guilty and that has cast doubt on the whole system.

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.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Joss Whedon

I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.

Patrick White

In 1964, submerged by the suburbs reaching farther into the country, we left Castle Hill, and moved into the centre of the city.

Ted Allen

I know that the single guys on the cast (which is everybody but me), hmm, well a lot more people flirt with you when you're on TV.

If the project goes ahead, it will be much easier for expatriates to cast a vote.

Jack Reynor

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

Carla Gallo

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