A Quote by Brent Sexton

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

Brent Sexton

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Business Casting Casting Directors Directors Heroes Tend Unsung Unsung Hero

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Brent Sexton
American - Actor
Born: August 12, 1967

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

Bernard Goldberg

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

Catherine Keener

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

Patricia Arquette

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

James Preston Rogers

Carers are important. They are the unsung heroes.

Aaron Pedersen

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.

Charles Best

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

Mary Beard

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

Harvey Pekar

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Andrew Young

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

Emma Walton Hamilton

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

David Lidington

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Casting director was a part-time thing, which later became a full-time job because there was a lack of casting directors in our industry and people were looking for professionals to do it.

Abhishek Banerjee

Acting in itself is changing. This change is because of the advent of the casting director. Earlier, there would be stock characters, who would be seen in every film. Now, casting directors are bringing fresh faces.