Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Harmon

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexa Vega

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

Andrew Rannells

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

E. B. White

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

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.

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.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Ibrahim Hooper

It's entirely inappropriate for the military to do such a cursory investigation of something that is really casting a very negative light on our nation's military and can only serve to further damage America's image and interests throughout the Islamic world.

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.

Irwin Edman

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine

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.

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.

Kenneth Tynan

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

Gus Van Sant

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Nathalie Emmanuel

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

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.

Chris Rock

I've never seen stunt casting that's actually funny: 'Oh, it's Shaq,' and then there's some horrible excuse for him to dunk, ... It's, like, 'We got a famous guy, and he's gonna be famous tonight' -- and it sucks!

The secretary did not misspeak. The secretary knows exactly what he was talking about. And there should be, I think, no question in our mind of casting doubt or walking it back.

Jane Levy

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.

There was discussion at our meeting about casting our net wider. I understand St. Clair County is interested and there could be others.

Ed Wood

Are you people insane? I'm the director. I make the casting decisions around here.

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.

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.

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.

Carla Gallo

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