Top 1200 Casting Off Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

I used to love auditioning. I loved going into the room and meeting casting directors.

Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone.

I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

I think women in our global patriarchal culture are told to shut their body down. And when we don't know why, we start to cut our body off. You cut off your curves. You cut off your breasts. You cut off the curve of your tush. You cut off your sexuality... and it's relegated to the bedroom.

Casting couch exists as far as smaller films are concerned... B and C grade types.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

My casting in 'Uncle On The Rocks' is like Rajpal Yadav being cast as Shahenshah or Akbar.

There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

Let's face it, you get home from work and what's the first thing that comes off? It's your bra, isn't it? You don't even take the clothes off. You actually sort of pull it out one of the sleeves and then fling it off. You're free.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off there, you make it harder on yourself as a director. And it's fun to work that out with the actors. I don't think there's any magic to directing actors. It's very instinctual. Working with actors is really one of my favorite creative moments of the whole process, and the most fun, because it's collaborative. I spend a lot of time rehearsing. I'm very rehearsal-oriented, probably because I have some background in theater. I like knowing what will work beforehand.

I don't discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I'm open to good acting.

Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Sent off, carried off, but never backed off.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

If there is anybody who can give you a combination of quality and reasonable budget, innovative content and casting, it is me!

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.

I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

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

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.

Filmmakers would compliment my work, but when casting for a heroine, they'd never think of me.

When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.