Casting Quotes

• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Filmmaker

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• Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

  Curly Howard

  Hair, Cooking, Asparagus

  "Fictional character: Curly". "Busy Buddies", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Persons, Seeing

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

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• I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

  Austin Peck

  Thinking, Play, Two

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Tears, Actors, Ifs

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

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

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

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• As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

  Robert Wise

  Work, Important, Needs

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• More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

  Martin Scorsese

  Ninety, Percent

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• Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

  Steven Bochco

  Aerospace, Painting, Knows

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• If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

  Amber Tamblyn

  Girl, Believe, Office

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• Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Reform, World, Women's Suffrage

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Passion, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  Cameron Diaz

  Directors, Mets, Casting Directors

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• I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Stars, People, Couches

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• 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 objectively.

  Rob Lowe

  Beautiful, Men, People

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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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, Masculine

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

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• At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

  Robert Benchley

  Hands, Joy, Firsts

  Robert Benchley (1985). “Benchley at the Theatre: Dramatic Criticism, 1920-1940”

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• I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Doors, Lunch

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• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Running, Space, Islands

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

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• I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Real, College, People

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• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  Owen Wilson

  Work, Believe, Thinking

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Editing, Downtime, Actors

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

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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  Famke Janssen

  Wise, Fighting, Careers

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