Act Quote by Lindsay Duncan

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated…

— Catherine Keener

Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think…

— Karla Crome

I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not…

— Gillian Jacobs

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

— Niels Arden Oplev

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so…

— Kelly Macdonald

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

— Linda Evangelista

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in…

— Simon McBurney

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

— Roger Ebert

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one…

— Christian Camargo

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't…

— Clifton Collins, Jr