Casting Quotes

Casting is very, very important.
Ciaran Hinds

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
Jim Dale

Feeling, Start, Whole

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
Stellan Skarsgard

Work, Greatest, Film

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
David Prowse

Meeting, England, Agent

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
David Prowse

Work, Film, Though

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.
Stephen Chow

Movies, Stress, Someone

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

Sometimes, Either, Room

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
Kaya Scodelario

School, Real, Give

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Great, Movies, Career

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.
Evanna Lynch

Everything, Two, Wrong

I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.
Trishelle Cannatella

Real, Same, Another

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
Matthew McGrory

Great, Cool, Him

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

Business, Movie, Approach

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'
Linda Hunt

Call, Authority

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
Rupert Sanders

Character, Off, Actor

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

Background, Directors, Ethnic

It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
Adam Scott

Help, Movie, Financing

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'
Naya Rivera

Black, Big, American

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Robert Wise

Work, Important, May

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
Dorothy Stratten

Men, Nothing, Movie

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Barry Pepper

Prison, Directors, Guard

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
Victoria Gotti

Life, Father, Real

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!
Berenice Marlohe

Find, Place, Chance

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

Work, Necessary, Realized

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David Ives

Trying, Play, Whole

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.
Thomas Horn

Great, Thought, Lose

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
Matt Walsh

Business, Pretty, Here

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?
Curly Howard

Cooking, Asparagus

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
Owen Wilson

Work, Movie, Works

I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen

Down, Find, Director

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