Casting Quotes · Page 11

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right…

— Corbin Bernsen

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

— Andrew Haigh

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

— Diane Abbott

It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or…

— Christophe Lemaitre

You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all.…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of…

— Doug Liman

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

— Nina Jacobson

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

— Martin Puryear

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the…

— R. Lee Ermey

She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in…

— Janet Fitch

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about…

— Famke Janssen

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones…

— David Carradine

When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love…

— Jason Mraz

I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to…

— Marlee Matlin

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him,…

— Matthew McGrory

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are…

— George Berkeley

Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in…

— Horatius Bonar

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in…

— Lee Wulff

I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,…

— Kehinde Wiley

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But…

— Eli Roth

I always do casting for every role, even if it's just one sentence. I like to work with theater actors because they're…

— Maren Ade

When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was…

— Meera Menon

I actually thought I was casting for a very small role, maybe a cameo role. I wasnt really sure what it was…

— Rosie Huntington Whiteley

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or…

— Craig Silvey

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based…

— Cary Fukunaga

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

— Gus Van Sant

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

— Archie Panjabi

Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.

— Francesca Gregorini

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

— Steve Buscemi

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set…

— Wes Anderson

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

— Kevin Hart

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

— Virgil

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

— Raza Murad

In my career, since people have appreciated my performance on television for years, even casting directors trust that I am capable of…

— Sunil Grover

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial…

— Jason Blum

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

— David Morrissey

I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it's always considered creative casting.

— John de Lancie

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

— Craig Zadan

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

— Lauren Bacall

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

— Jonathan Frakes