Casting Quotes

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen

Movies, Wise, Fight

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
Ridley Scott

Good, Job, Pretty

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
Selma Blair

Beauty, Time, Hard

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.
David Cronenberg

Character, Wife, Someone

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.
Jason Bateman

Old, Couple, Couch

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Girl, Different, Young

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
Sam Mendes

Great, Done, Him

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.
Stephenie Meyer

Funny, Time, Book

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'
Stephenie Meyer

Great, Awesome, Exciting

My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
M. Night Shyamalan

Good, Human, Kids

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
Luke Ford

Time, Good, Black

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
Feist

Mean, Enough, Times

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
Dave Foley

Making, While, Later

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
Todd Solondz

Good, Everything

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.
Pink

Everything, Speak, Far

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
Bruce Nauman

Work, Time, Thinking

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
Andrzej Wajda

Nothing, Together, Enough

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
Dan Harmon

Important, Television, Production

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
Amber Tamblyn

God, Different, Put

Casting is 65 percent of directing.
John Frankenheimer

Percent, Directing

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
Parker Posey

Funny, Depression, Deep

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
Peter Welch

Against, Debt, Congress

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.
James Denton

Girl, Thought, Light

I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.
Josh Gad

Family, Live, Wife

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
Taye Diggs

Down, Matter, Far

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
Darren Aronofsky

Important, Hard, Characters

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert

Time, Science, Real

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Steven Bochco

Looking, Paintings, Recognize

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.
Wes Anderson

Time, Experience, Children

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
Randy Harrison

Good, College, While

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