Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Katims

I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

When they did that, their supporting cast was shell-shocked. I told my players to go out and think that the score was 0-0 when it was really 26-9. They closed the gap to 29-20 right before the half. That was a big victory for this young team. We just weren't able to sustain it.

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.

Andreas Katsulas

Whereas this was a new cast that still had to prove themselves and find their characters, and really work hard on this to make it work.

Jim Dale

You know the only way a show can get around before people have seen it is when the cast starts talking to each other in Joe Allen's. 'How's it going? Oh not too good.' 'Oh how's it going? Fantastic.' So that's how rumors start.

Dwyane Wade

You know, the guy is averaging 28 points a game. You have to wonder what some of them were looking at when they cast their vote. I'm sure that it gets political, but the good news is that he's on the team. This is where he belongs.

John Hawkes

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

Patrick Murray

People are not satisfied with the two candidates. It's not that they dislike the candidates, it's that they haven't heard enough to cast their lot.

Mel Martinez

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

Michael Leunig

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Surely they who deviate from the right way concerning Our communications are not hidden from Us. What! is he then who is cast into the fire better, or he who comes safe on the day of resurrection? Do what you like, surely He sees what you do.

Catherine Hardwicke

Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.

Some guys will cast a plastic worm out there and hold it. But I like to keep moving.

Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field. We were 16-of-31 from the line. Castle Rock out-hustled us and out-worked us. We had a big enough lead that we were able to hold on, but we did not play with a sense of urgency and we missed a lot of shots.

That event cast a big shadow on the company, but the strong support demonstrated by the Defense Department and others in the broadcast, with that wide a national audience, has restored a lot of confidence in the company as a worthwhile investment.

Al Green

Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seriously the notion that a person's home is his castle, and to protect that castle from the king and his men.

Liev Schreiber

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

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.

Just got my cast off about two and a half weeks ago. It's still a great opportunity to come here and still be part of the program, watch what's taking place.

Verne Troyer

Just being able to work with Mike Myers and everybody in the whole cast was a great experience. It was like a big party all the time.

I thought our supporting cast did a great job of playing defense and keeping our turnovers down, particularly in the first half. It feels wonderful to get the conference tournament championship after all the injuries we've had this year.

Dan Harmon

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

Chloe Bennet

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I think it takes a lot of pressure off me. I can just go out there and just play with a cast of guys like that ... I know I have to earn my stripes, earn playing time, and I'm willing to do that.

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.

I think we are going to get this Castro idea that the world is wrong and we are right.

It is not every day you see a Scottish castle in the middle of a river.

Madison Pettis

I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

Manny Coto

Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

Playing for Coach Lauro really made you feel prepared for college. That's a scary feeling when you're a 17-year-old kid leaving New Castle to go to Virginia Tech, but you just knew you were prepared because he worked you so hard you were going to survive that.

Thomas Sowell

Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.

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.

Regardless of all the strife in this field and our complaining incessantly about national policy, and despite some recent events that have cast a shadow on this work, there's a great deal of excitement in this field.