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Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. -- Charles Bronson
Casting is 65 percent of directing. -- John Frankenheimer
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. -- Barry Pepper
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good. -- Todd Solondz
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. -- Darren Aronofsky
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. -- Steven Bochco
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. -- Parker Posey
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. -- Susan B. Anthony
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
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. -- Neil Gaiman
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
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
Casting is storytelling. -- Joss Whedon
Casting is very, very important. -- Ciaran Hinds
Casting is always subject to availabilities. -- William Monahan
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? -- Curly Howard
Every casting director I've met is a woman. -- Cameron Diaz
Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else. -- William Monahan
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. -- John Milton
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. -- Brent Sexton
Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part. -- Stockard Channing
Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me. -- Ruth Ozeki
Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. -- Andrew Marvell
Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through. -- Susan Seidelman
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time. -- Jodie Foster
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in. -- John Selden
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. -- Steven Spielberg
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable. -- Gus Van Sant
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background -- Mario Lopez
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it. -- Steve Buscemi
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition. -- Francesca Gregorini
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. -- Bella Thorne
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements. -- Stellan Skarsgard
Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. -- Gustave Flaubert
Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt. -- Lionel Shriver
Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in 'Game of Thrones.' All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional. -- Joe Dempsie
Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting. -- Doug Liman
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
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. -- Rob Lowe
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. -- Sam Mendes
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. -- Robert Benchley
Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them? -- Alexandre Aja
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.' -- Stark Sands
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. -- John Milton
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me. -- Ruth Ozeki
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle. -- Clint Eastwood
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
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do. -- Charlie Kaufman
I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. -- Austin Peck
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
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent. -- Randy Harrison
Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part. -- Scott Ellis
Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end. -- Joseph E. Johnston
Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end. -- Joseph E. Johnston
Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.' -- Stephenie Meyer
I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him. -- Dan Trachtenberg
As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial. -- Robert Wise
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight. -- William Hazlitt
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. -- John Milton
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
Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens. -- Kami Garcia
Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that. -- Cary Fukunaga
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings. -- M. Night Shyamalan
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
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. -- Jose Saramago
Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason. -- Stephen Chow
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. -- Jason Mraz
In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book. -- Luke Rhinehart
The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story. -- Shashi Tharoor
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
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. -- Zosia Mamet
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. -- John le Carre
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means. -- Nat Turner
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway. -- Marlee Matlin
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. -- Ian Fleming
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. -- Henry Rollins
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close friends, and so we keep working together. And I like casting friends of mine or people I know in parts I know would be perfect for them. I like to bring things and people that mean something to me in to my work. -- Noah Baumbach
With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years. -- Gina Prince-Bythewood
Sometimes it's all about the casting. -- Roger Ebert
Making a movie is casting a spell. -- Kenneth Anger
Local casting is just something I love doing. -- Benh Zeitlin
For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit. -- Paul Gillin
I feel like a lot of directing is casting. -- Damien Chazelle
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell. -- Plato
Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future -- Mari Evans
I do a pretty good job at casting actually. -- Ridley Scott
The show is in the casting. Choose the right people. -- Susan Nattrass
The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables. -- Brad Furman
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. -- Ransom Riggs
You can't light another's path without casting light on your own. -- John C. Maxwell
A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work. -- Terry Zwigoff
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority. -- Linda Hunt
In our moments in the sun beware of casting dark shadows. -- Jason Versey
alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting -- Martin Scorsese
Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further. -- Lefty Kreh
Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic. -- Janet Fitch
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. -- Michael Medved
I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies. -- Ben Affleck
I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting. -- Alexa Vega
I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production. -- Dan Harmon
I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it. -- John Carpenter
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly. -- John Huston
In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. -- Ted Allen
Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch. -- Jason Bateman
There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know. -- Johnathon Schaech
From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems. -- Mimi Kennedy
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England. -- David Prowse
Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt. -- Steven J Lawson
I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world -- Arjun Rampal
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view. -- Jamie Bamber
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting. -- Alex Pettyfer
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul. -- Richard Wilbur
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. -- Tanith Lee

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