Casting Quotes - Page 9

• There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Moving, Character, Men

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

  Ben Affleck

  Important, Aspect, Feels

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.

  Joseph Stalin

  School, Voters, Lists

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• Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on the horizon of realistic possibilities is an Israeli "one state" that fulfills the messianic nationalist ideal embraced by deep Zionism, likely consisting of completing the expansionist process of recent years by incorporating all or most of the West Bank, casting Gaza adrift, consolidating control over Jerusalem, and transferring as many West Bank Palestinians as possible to Jordan.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Years, Horizon

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my career took off very quickly, but still. All the memories I have about first casting in general - they're not nice. Just because there's so many girls, so much competition. I don't blame those casting directors, they see so many girls and they can't be nice to everybody. But you don't feel like a person, you feel like a number.

  Bianca Balti

  Girl, Memories, Nice

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room.

  Julie Benz

  Mother, Eye, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I worked so hard on that role [of Debra in Dexter]. And I barely worked on Rita. But I read for casting - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in for producers." So I read for some producers - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in to meet the creator." And I went in, and as soon as I walked in the room, he looked at me and he said, "Oh my god, you're our Rita!" And I said, "No! I'm Deb! I'm a total Deb!" "No, you're Rita!".

  Julie Benz

  Rooms, Roles, Said

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Our World, Life And Death, Borders

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.

  Sandra Bullock

  Together, Scripts, Saws

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• It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.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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• [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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• Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

  Ransom Riggs

  Jobs, Directors, Fifty

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

  Kehinde Wiley

  America, Different, Streets

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at the faces of the young men that we were speaking to through translators and so on, showing them the books. Complete - completely different response.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Book, Men, Faces

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Choices, Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Men, Might, Film

  Source: variety.com

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• I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

  Gigi Hadid

  Couple, Years, Careers

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.

  Gigi Hadid

  New York, Party, Epic

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

  Mike Colter

  Two, World, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Character, Play, Design Work

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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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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• You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.

  Charlie Brooker

  Blow, World, Building

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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