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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Disappointment, Heartbreaking, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  Karen Gillan

  People, Looks, Models

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• My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

  Wes Anderson

  Children, Perfect, People

  "Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, wunc.org. May 29, 2012.

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• AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

  Mireille Enos

  Names, Track, Actors

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• I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

  Josh Gad

  Perfect, Wife, Modern Family

  "'New Girl': Josh Gad on His Unsuccessful Romancing of Jess in the Season 2 Premiere" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 25, 2012.

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• People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

  Linda Hunt

  People, Authority

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• People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

  Missi Pyle

  Thinking, People, Rooms

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• 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, Directors, Just One

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

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• To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

  Rupert Sanders

  Character, Actors, Findings

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

  Kate Voegele

  Tree, Singing, Acting

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• L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

  Matt Walsh

  Kids, People, Insane

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  B. D. Wong

  Children, School, Kids

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• If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

  Ted Trueblood

  Mean, Sea, Fishing

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• Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

  Blake Shelton

  Beach, Tree, Shade

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• You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Light, Path

  John C. Maxwell (2016). “JumpStart Your Priorities: A 90-Day Improvement Plan”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

  Mari Evans

  Jewels, Brilliance

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• I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

  Archie Panjabi

  Weight, Auditions, Eating

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• I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

  Berenice Marlohe

  Names, Paris, Auditions

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• Casting is very, very important.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Important

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2010.

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• And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

  Dave Foley

  Mets, Wounds

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 15, 2009.

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

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

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• My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

  Miley Cyrus

  Dad, Artist, Agency

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• When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Names, Dull

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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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• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

  Mike Leigh

  Cutting, Guy, Feelings

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