Casts Quotes - Page 20

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  Sally Phillips

  Writing, Comedian

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• When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Weakness, Actors

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

  Theodore Bikel

  Character, Directors, Doe

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• Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fire, Punishment, Islam

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.27, University of Texas Press

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• I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.

  Andre Øvredal

  Work Out, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.

  Amy Ryan

  Trying, Directors, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.

  Veena Sud

  Running, Zero, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Jobs, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male environment. That was really the reason that I wanted to be a part of it. And, I went in and met with the producer and the director that did the pilot, Mike Robin, and read with them. And then, I did a read with Angie Harmon, who was already cast. From the moment we read together, it just clicked. It was as easy as that.

  Sasha Alexander

  Two, Together, Pilots

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't often get what you ask for, and I got exactly that. I got a show that was on cable, that I could shoot five months a year and go be mommy the rest of the time, and be with a cast and crew that I really, really love, adore and respect. I got all of that.

  Angie Harmon

  Years, Months, Crew

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Bridges, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Writing, Guy, Greek

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."

  David Schwimmer

  Play, Danger, Audience

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Focus, Want, Pressure

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• British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

  Jim Sturgess

  Thinking, Interesting, Guy

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

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• ... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Shadow, Film

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• A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Taken, Photograph, Inferiors

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• ... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well.

  James Welling

  Black, Shadow, Cameras

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• No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

  Michael Caine

  Promise, Directors, Officers

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

  Walton Goggins

  Expression, Actors, Love Making

  Source: collider.com

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• I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Thinking, Jumping, Rocks

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• I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

  Willem de Kooning

  Dimples, Classic, Students

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
  2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost.
  3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
  4. Take now and then a day's rest.
  5. Get a smart seasickness if you can.
  6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.
  This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Exercise, Journey

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”

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• On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Hands, Mastery

  Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications

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• Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.

  Paul of the Cross

  Heart, Water, Lines

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