Casting Quotes - Page 7

• The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

  Claudette Colbert

  Made, Couches, Stardom

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• I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

  Peter Berg

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

  Andy Serkis

  Voice, Agents, Scripts

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• Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  Christopher Landsea

  Weather, Doubt, Energy

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• After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, People, Age

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• Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you

  Steven Strait

  Sweet, Love You, Love Is

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• With the casting in Israel, sometimes there were four or five people, that you could just flip a coin and choose from, that would have been all terrific. And seeing all of these fabulous faces that the American audiences are just not used to seeing is really exciting.

  Tim Kring

  Israel, People, Coins

  Source: collider.com

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• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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• I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Believe, Water

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Tired, Heart, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Doors, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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, Rooms

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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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• My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Character, Years

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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• When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.

  Meera Menon

  Teenager, Acting, Actors

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Thinking, Casting Off, Doe

  Source: deadline.com

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• The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.

  Susan Nattrass

  Leadership, People, Shows

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• Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Mean, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting notice] that said "Tracee Ellis Ross type," but [the producers] didn't want to see me. I've been in this industry long enough to know that even if someone wants to promise me something, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. There are so many things at play. But it was flattering and exciting.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mean, Play, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Dog, White, Issues

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit like a house of cards, everyone has to match up in a certain way so the whole structure is grounded. So that's essential, and yes, it's about finding the right people and the right constellation around the lead character.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Character, House Of Cards, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mean, Trying, Things Change

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten through all the writing stuff, and the producing stuff, and casting, and prep, and all those stages that are seemingly endless. So directing is sort of the reward for all the work you put in before. And then there's the editing, which is another amazing stage of the process. It's incredible the moments you can create.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Writing, Editing

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

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• It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Directors, Environment, Shows

  "Talking Girl Power and What's Next With 'Game of Thrones' Star Nathalie Emmanuel". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. June 27, 2016.

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