Casting Quotes

• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Filmmaker

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• Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

  Curly Howard

  Hair, Cooking, Asparagus

  "Fictional character: Curly". "Busy Buddies", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

  Austin Peck

  Thinking, Play, Two

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Tears, Actors, Ifs

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

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

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

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• As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

  Robert Wise

  Work, Important, Needs

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

  Martin Scorsese

  Ninety, Percent

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

  Steven Bochco

  Aerospace, Painting, Knows

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• Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Character, Interesting, Important

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

  Todd Solondz

  People, Looks, Ifs

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

  Barry Pepper

  Prison Guards, Directors, Snipers

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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, Directors

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• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  Parker Posey

  Order, People, Agents

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• The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Color, Numbers, Roles

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  Sam Mendes

  Skills, People, Actors

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• 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.

  Sandra Oh

  White, People, Rooms

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• It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

  Jim Dale

  Fishing, Laughing, Feelings

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

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• 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!

  David Prowse

  Orange, Film, Heard

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

  Tanith Lee

  Vote, Genre, Categories

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• My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Dad, School

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

  Ted Allen

  Difficult, Shows, Actuality

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

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• Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.

  Stephen Collins

  Strong, Hair, Gentleman

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• Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

  David Cronenberg

  Character, Found Someone, Play

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• But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

  David Carradine

  Thinking, Stuff, Awful

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