Casting Directors Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Stephen Root

  People, Casting, Directors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  Cameron Diaz

  Directors, Casting, Mets

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• When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

  Danielle Fishel

  Teenager, Character, Long

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

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• My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

  Alicia Vikander

  Love, Age, London

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• Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.

  Max Irons

  Jobs, People, Casting

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• 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.'

  Stark Sands

  Father, Journey, Soldier

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

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• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Running, Space, Islands

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

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• [Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Kids, Laughing, Wow

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

  William Mapother

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

  Winona Ryder

  Running, Careers, Mosquitoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I did and thought she was great in. She was just so charming and beautiful. But I felt she could probably look plain if we tried. And when I subsequently met with her, I was so charmed by her vulnerability and sweetness. Those were two qualities that were the most important for that character.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Beautiful, Character, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Mean, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

  Andre Holland

  Reading, People, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Directors, Different, Casting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• 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

  Horror Stories, Directors, Use

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• I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

  Scott Speedman

  Mom, Years, Directors

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• 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.

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Directors, Casting, Environment

  "Talking Girl Power and What's Next With 'Game of Thrones' Star Nathalie Emmanuel". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. June 27, 2016.

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

  Barry Pepper

  Prison Guards, Directors, Casting

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• It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that. Instead, they look for people that they've seen in other movies or they're friends with.

  Barbara Crampton

  Independent, People, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want to hear that conversation," it's because it makes them uncomfortable." But that's because they think it's all okay. If it was racist, I would move onto someone whose mind I could change, but it's mostly ignorance. So when someone says, "Oh, it doesn't matter," I not only make designers responsible but casting directors and modeling agencies for not pushing those other girls on to the designers.

  Bethann Hardison

  Girl, Strong, Attitude

  Source: time.com

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• People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Directors, Asking

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• I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Doors, Lunch

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• I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett.

  Garrett Clayton

  Jobs, Men, Names

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Dad, Actors

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