Casting Quotes

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

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

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Making a movie is casting a spell.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

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.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

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

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

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

Sometimes, it's all about the casting.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

Casting is storytelling.

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.