Casting Quotes · Page 9

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

— Michael Medved

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

— Holland Roden

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

— Bella Thorne

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

— Carla Gallo

“Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.”

— Steven Pressfield

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in 'Game of Thrones.' All the young actors are…

— Joe Dempsie

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was;…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I can do so many accents that I'll never be able to use. There aren't casting calls for a black guy to…

— Sam Richardson

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and…

— Henry Rollins

I went to the casting unaware they were looking for a new female lead. We were told it was for a nemesis…

— Rosie Huntington Whiteley

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying…

— Sandra Oh

I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream…

— Philomena Kwao

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political…

— Jose Saramago

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some…

— Kimberley Nixon

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you…

— Woody Allen

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on…

— Mike Judge

Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being…

— Kim Addonizio

Casting is always critical but in this case, 'The Way Back', I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix…

— Peter Weir

The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator,…

— Camille Paglia

I worked so hard on that role [of Debra in Dexter]. And I barely worked on Rita. But I read for casting…

— Julie Benz

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in…

— Rob Lowe

Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It…

— Katrina Kaif

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

— John Selden

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.

— Andrej Pejic

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If…

— Elia Kazan

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

— Paul Pearsall

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

— Judd Apatow

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the…

— Yasumasa Morimura

As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.

— Atul Kulkarni

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what…

— Kriti Sanon

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

— Cassie Scerbo

Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must…

— Alain Ducasse

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

— Claudette Colbert

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting…

— Jane Levy

Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over…

— Steven Strait

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next…

— Allison Janney

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

— Misha Green

I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

— Mike Judge