Casts Quotes

• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Captains

• The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

  

  Annie Laurie Gaylor
  • Mean
  • Religion
  • Prisoner

• 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

• Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • World
  • Light
  • Internet

• Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Live
  • Doubt

• I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Creative
  • Capable
  • Ammunition

• You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Streets

• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  

  Hannah Flagg Gould
  • Sports
  • Hands
  • Ocean

• Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

  

  William Cowper
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful lord Is but a transient guest, newly arrived, And soon to be supplanted. He that saw His patrimonial timber cast its leaf, Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price To some shrewd sharper ere it buds again. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile, Then advertised and auctioneer'd away.

  

  William Cowper
  • Father
  • Son
  • Lord

• Shaquille O'Neal walked in and said we were hiring him, so we said, "Yes sir!" Shaq is a genuinely funny guy. He's really funny in the movie. He's not just a stunt cast- he's a genuinely funny actor.

  

  Dennis Dugan
  • Guy
  • Actors
  • Said

• I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Knows
  • Casts
  • Bad Guys

• Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Country
  • Order
  • Careers

• I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Guy
  • Violent
  • Odd

• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Violence
  • Eye
  • Path

• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Reason
  • Triumph
  • Supreme

• Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Decision

• The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

  

  Hosni Mubarak
  • Doubt
  • Special
  • Vote

• the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Persons
  • Hardest
  • Demon

• I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

  

  William Sanderson
  • Said
  • Casts

• 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
  • Film
  • Pressure

• Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Children
  • Summer
  • Nativity

• 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
  • Way
  • Actors

• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

  

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Parent

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