Casting Quotes - Page 2

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

  Todd Solondz

  People, Looks, Ifs

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• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  Owen Wilson

  Work, Believe, Thinking

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• 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.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Flags, Stuff, Trouble

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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• I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Real, College, People

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• 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.

  Lionel Blue

  Miracle, Birth, Resurrection

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

  Martin Puryear

  Carving, Method, I Realized

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Games, Acting

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• 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.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Men, Honest, Couches

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• I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

  Ridley Scott

  Jobs, Good Job

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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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• 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'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  Gabrielle Union

  Change, Position Of Power, People

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• I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

  Adriana Lima

  Jobs, Bikinis, Skinny

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• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

  Jose Saramago

  Beach, Party, Mean

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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

  Mario Lopez

  Directors, Cases, Backgrounds

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• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

  Time, Real, Math

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• Casting is storytelling.

  Joss Whedon

  Storytelling

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

  Norman Geisler

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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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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• The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

  J. C. Ryle

  World, Care, Way

  J.C. Ryle (1853). “A call to prayer”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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