Casting Directors Quotes

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Tears, Actors, Casting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

  Mark Duplass

  Directors, Looks, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

  Jamie Chung

  Real, Directors, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

  Catherine Keener

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

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• I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, People, Directors

  "Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'" by Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2011.

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

  Charles Bronson

  Directors, Looks, Casting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• 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

  Summer, College, Casting

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

  Brent Sexton

  Hero, Directors, Casting

  "Q&A – Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

  Krysten Ritter

  Opportunity, Directors, Casting

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

  Danny Strong

  Reading, Tv Shows, Casting

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• After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Agency, People, Directors

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• 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...

  Naomi Campbell

  Directors, Stylist, Casting

  Interview Magazine Intreview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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

  Mario Lopez

  Directors, Casting, Cases

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• I’ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director’s door you’ve still got to do your homework: you’ve still got to work hard.

  Rafe Spall

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

  "Rafe Spall: 'My dad taught me that even if you get past the casting director's door you've got to do your homework'". Interview with Will Sawney, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Tired, Heart, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Thinking, Light

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

  Olivia Wilde

  Directors, Burning, Actors

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• '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.

  Albert Brooks

  Thinking, Play, Casting

  "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

  Kevin Hart

  Reading, Hands, Directors

  "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.

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

  Bella Thorne

  Texas, Giving, Directors

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.

  Tinsel Korey

  Couple, Real, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Bridges, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Directors

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• 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.

  Nina Jacobson

  Block, Games, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room. You have to make that judgement yourself, and that's partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.

  Adrian Hodges

  Thinking, People, Judgement

  Source: collider.com

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