Casting Quotes - Page 17

• Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  People, Theatre, Television

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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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• To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

  Erin Wasson

  Beautiful, Creativity, Clothes

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• For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Nice, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."

  Zach McGowan

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

  Courtney B. Vance

  Tears, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

  Mike Judge

  Eight, People, Awkward

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

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• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  B. D. Wong

  Jobs, Order, Issues

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• Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Religious, Children

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122

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• One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.

  Deepa Mehta

  Character, Perfect, Bollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Summer Glau

  Trying, Ability, Notion

  Source: collider.com

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

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Savages, Done

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• I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.

  Alexander Payne

  Character, Hands, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

  James Preston Rogers

  Careers, Acting, Wish

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• Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.

  Gregory Nicotero

  School, People, Zombie

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

  Woody Allen

  People, Lucky, Credit

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• You only get one shot in your life and you might as well push yourself and try things. There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie; the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations. It's a great, great thing to be involved in if you have the headspace for it, and I do. Try anything once.

  Jason Statham

  Interesting, Design, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.

  Ricky Gervais

  Writing, Editing, Ideas

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• In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

  Jim Jefferies

  Book, People, Comedian

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

  Kevin Smith

  Fun, Wings, Sides

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• In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Ideas, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Choices, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Men, Doors, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston looks back at Walter White’s greatest hits, part 2". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 13, 2012.

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