Casting Quote by Joseph Fink

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our…

— Howard Schultz

I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes they'll write…

— Adam Beach

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives…

— Shonda Rhimes

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with…

— Richard Masur

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Mario Lopez

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

— Chadwick Boseman

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or…

— Vanessa Morgan

A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind…

— Sarita Choudhury

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race…

— Naya Rivera

My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of…

— Stephen Fry