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Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business. -- Brent Sexton
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. -- Barry Pepper
There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. -- Max von Sydow
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. -- Mario Lopez
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
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. -- Bella Thorne
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home. -- Norman Fell
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. -- Olivia Wilde
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that. -- Jamie Chung
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
When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. -- Naomi Campbell
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
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
When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long. -- Danielle Fishel
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
I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me. -- Luke Evans
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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
I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short. -- Persis Khambatta
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
I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?' -- Naya Rivera
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
I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition. -- Carly Schroeder
In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y. -- Becki Newton
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
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face. -- Kimberley Nixon
For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. -- Neil Patrick Harris
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background -- Mario Lopez
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress. -- Cassie Ventura
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen. -- Nicole Ari Parker
The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that. -- Jamie Chung
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
As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles. -- James Preston Rogers

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