Casting Quotes

I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

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.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

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.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

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

Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

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.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, looking at casting tapes.

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.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

Casting is always subject to availabilities.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Don’t worry. Cast your anxieties upon the Lord!

I can foreseen the fulfillment of my the visions.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!