Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Jackson

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.

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.

Oscar Isaac

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

We could get a little more going into this, and the motion will keep going into the first of the year until the end of January, really. We'll get a few things settled by the end of January, but the die is cast here, and we're going to continue to see the dollar sell off.

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.

Patrick J. Adams

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

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.

Ray Winstone

I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.

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.

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.

Pamela Adlon

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Chris Avellone

While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.

Franklin Graham

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

David Oyelowo

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.

Holly Near

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

with a cast of characters straight out of central casting.

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.

Charles Spurgeon

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

We see Oscar time as a huge opportunity to provide consumers with yet another opportunity to cast their votes before they see the official winner on television.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

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,

Ben Mendelsohn

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

Bryan Fuller

I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.

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.

Barbara Windsor

'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.