Casting Quotes

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...

There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

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.

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.

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

I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

Local casting is just something I love doing.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

Casting is very, very important.

I'm so busy trying to be other people. 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 want to hire you.

Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?