Casts Quotes

• Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Creation
  • Might
  • Persona

• Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Found
  • Directors
  • Casts

• Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Vote
  • Argument
  • Congress

• Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Dust
  • Noble

• When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Enjoy
  • Shadow
  • Shining

• Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Brother
  • Actors
  • Christmas

• Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

  

  Francine Rivers
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humans

• The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Tomorrow

• 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
  • Students
  • Classic
  • Draws

• Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

  

  Carrie Coon
  • Looks
  • Roles
  • Casts

• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Determine

• I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Shows
  • Score

• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Generations

• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Advice

• I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Waiting

• With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

  

  Charles Burnett
  • Real
  • Character
  • Understanding

• When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such a wonderful script and it was quite complex and there wasn't a hell of a lot of improvising I could do to bring to the table, but I guess what I did bring was a sense of self and that the reason I was cast was because I did come across as someone who possibly was only human for a short time.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Reason
  • Humans
  • Wonderful

• Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mind
  • May
  • Stills

• When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • College
  • Play
  • Surprise

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Promise
  • Directors
  • Officers

• I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

  

  Michael Learned
  • Television
  • Casts
  • Compassionate

• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Belief
  • Shadow
  • Groups

• Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Writing
  • Light
  • Casts

• Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Children
  • Past
  • Sometimes

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