Casting Directors Quotes

• Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Tears, Actors, Casting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

  Mark Duplass

  Directors, Looks, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

  Brent Sexton

  Hero, Directors, Casting

  "Q&A – Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• 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

  Real, Directors, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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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

  Directors, Looks, Casting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

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• 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

  Long, People, Directors

  "Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'" by Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Summer, College, Casting

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• I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

  Krysten Ritter

  Opportunity, Directors, Casting

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• 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

  Acting, Directors, Going Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

  Kevin Hart

  Reading, Hands, Directors

  "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

  Nina Jacobson

  Block, Games, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

  Danny Strong

  Reading, Tv Shows, Casting

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• After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Agency, People, Directors

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• I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Doors, Directors, Casting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Drama, School, Passion

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.

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• In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.

  Bostin Christopher

  Cities, Acting, Together

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  Rafe Spall

  Son, Doors, Directors

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• 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

  Careers, Acting, Wish

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• One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

  Devon Sawa

  Casting, Next, Pushing

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• I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.

  Jordi Molla

  Nice, Home, Lunch

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• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  Maddie Hasson

  North Carolina, Directors, Casting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.

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• 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

  Lunch, Years, Casting

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• 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

  Home, Class, Directors

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• 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

  Kids, People, Insane

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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