Casting Quotes

• It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
  • Show
  • Girls
  • Street

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Producers

• I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.

  

  David Michod
  • Important
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

  

  Selma Blair
  • People
  • Eye
  • Hard

• I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Mom
  • Directors
  • Remembered

• Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Environment

• The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Reading
  • Characters
  • Director

• The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

  

  David Michod
  • Movie
  • Sense
  • Get

• I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that race in casting is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Together
  • Strange
  • Brilliant

• And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

  

  John Milton
  • Light
  • Religious
  • Casting

• 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 Ovredal
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Casting

• I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.

  

  Aaron Korsh
  • Experience
  • Suits
  • Casting

• As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Writing
  • Actor
  • Scripts

• I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

  

  Sierra McCormick
  • Realize
  • Rejection
  • Casting

• A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • People
  • Categories
  • Casting

• Casting is sometimes like going to a party. You get there and everybody at the party is wonderful. They're funny, they're interesting, and the next time you go to a party, you kind of want those same people there. I do find myself going back to a lot of the same actors I've worked with because it was fun, it was good and I know they can do the job. When we have tight deadlines to cast a project, that's how some decisions are made.

  

  Andrea Romano
  • Job
  • Party
  • Decisions

• Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Trip
  • Casting
  • Cab driver

• An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Human
  • Directors
  • Casting

• I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • Girls
  • Casting
  • Coloured

• I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

  

  Sigrid Agren
  • Model
  • Casting
  • Contest

• I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

  

  Summer Phoenix
  • Role
  • Agents
  • Casting

• If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

  

  Phil Crane
  • President
  • Hollywood
  • Casting

• There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

  

  Johnathon Schaech
  • Know
  • Things
  • Casting

• My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • People
  • Children
  • Perfect

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