Top 993 Casting Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.
I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world
As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.
I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.
Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.
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.
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.
There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.
The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.
I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.
There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it's always considered creative casting.
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.
If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.
For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.
I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.
I'm being called in by all the great casting directors. It's no longer based on a headshot. I realize now what they're buying is passion.
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
There's no set formula of success in Bollywood and one needs to be constantly in touch with the casting directors to get hold of the right opportunities.
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
For me, casting is very instinctive, and if I don't feel good about it, I just can't go ahead and make the film.
I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years.
Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
