Casting Quotes - Page 6

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.

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.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

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.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

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.

There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

I worked so hard on that role [of Debra in Dexter]. And I barely worked on Rita. But I read for casting - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in for producers." So I read for some producers - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in to meet the creator." And I went in, and as soon as I walked in the room, he looked at me and he said, "Oh my god, you're our Rita!" And I said, "No! I'm Deb! I'm a total Deb!" "No, you're Rita!".

You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.

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

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

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

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.