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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.
Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right for the part, but nahh, you're not quite what we're looking for.'
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
Till 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai,' I was involved in everything from casting to scripting. Then I shifted to a separate house.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.
We need to encourage the presence of more Asian writers and executive producers so they can fight for normalizing the casting of Asians in traditional American roles.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.
I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.
I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.
My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.
I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.
It's not enough to be diverse in your casting. You have to service those characters; you have to make them fully well rounded because people are watching.
In the beginning of our career, we want to make an identity, and I am happy that people think I have good comic timing, and they are casting me in films.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.
I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of who our character is.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.
When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.
Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.
With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.
I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.
When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...
People are catching on to diversity and colour-blind casting. For me, it meant turning down certain work and making a stand.
You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.
Showing variety in representation in casting is super important, it gives minorities a platform and I think it definitely creates a safe space for conversation and progress.
No, I don't think it is required for casting directors to be actors too. My mentor Gautam Kishanchandani cannot act to save his life!
I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.
It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.
What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.
I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.
As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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.
I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
I was dating someone and wanted to get married to him. But just because casting couch exists in TFI and I work here, he didn't respect me.
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch that it was an 'unlucky' day.
For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.
I always look for innovative casting and that's why I seek directors, whether in Bollywood or regional films, who are keen to make something different.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.
When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.