Casting Quotes - Page 6

• Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Struggle, Eight

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• I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

  David Morrissey

  Acting, Taught, Wells

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• Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Actors, Elements, Film

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• People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, People, Looks

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

  Arnold Bennett

  Memories, Casting Off, Use

  Arnold Bennett (2000). “The Old Wives' Tale”, p.577, Chicago Review Press

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• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  Naveen Andrews

  Writing, Color, People

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

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• Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

  Stephen Chow

  Stress, Different, Needs

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.

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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Disappointment, Heartbreaking, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Girl, Black, Looks

  "Get To Know...Jourdan Dunn, Model Of The Year" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. November 28, 2008.

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• My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Summer, Jobs, Firsts

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• When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

  Danielle Fishel

  Teenager, Character, Long

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

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• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  Karen Gillan

  People, Looks, Models

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• From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

  John Gierach

  Fun, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

  Chris Weitz

  Finals, Looks, Golden

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Confused, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making a movie is casting a spell.

  Kenneth Anger

  Spells

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• I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Race, Perfect

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• We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

  John Brunner

  Way, Should, Keep Going

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Hands, Organization

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

  Paul W. K. Rothemund

  Technology, Dna, Self

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• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  Saint Peter

  Encouragement, Humble, Hands

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