“I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.” IfsWantLooksCharacterActorsFineCastsCharacter ActorsSidekicks Author:Steve Zahn
“You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.” WantFeelsTryingHardActorsWatchesToo MuchPositionCastsUnfortunateNeedyTrying Too Hard Author:Jess Weixler
“Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.” Has BeensImportantActorsStarsActingCastsMovie StarGreat Actors Author:Jose Padilha
“It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.” IfsWorldHappensActorsCastsBeing The Best Author:Roger Moore
“I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.” ThinkingWorldWritingCharacterWould BeActorsRolesMoonCastsRhythmToneTwilightVacuumsNew Moon Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.” ChildrenActorsTreeCastsChild Actors Author:Vin Diesel
“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.” IfsPoliticalActorsNamesBitsNiceMinutesSubjectsChangedReadyArmsColdComfortDirectorsSticksCastsDetailsNewspapersNosesExtrasItalianInquiryRequestRefinedMarcosArchivesPolitical Life Author:Indro Montanelli
“They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.” FirstsPlayYoungActorsPresidentCastsProducersBarackFreemanYoung ActorsFirst Date Author:Jimmy Fallon
“It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.” PlayTogetherActorsLiteratureIssuesProducePressureSurpriseEverydayCastsOpeningWorking TogetherCurtainsUnder Pressure Author:David Talbot
“I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindStillsActorsKnow HowKeysSceneBandApproachMusicianJazzCastsCome UpMediocreGood ActorsDifferentiateEnsembleJazz Band Author:Wesley Snipes
“You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.” FirstsLooksDifferentRunningFilmActorsDifficultAnimalCastsBoringRight ThingFrustratingWrong ThingsTrainersPromptsDifferent Experiences Author:Ethan Coen
“I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.” WayActorsProcessEnjoyPerformancesCastsBack And Forth Author:Frank Welker
“When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.” IfsWantNeedsAbleFilmActorsRealizingHappenedConversationCasts Author:Paddy Considine
“To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.” Has BeensFilmActorsCastsScreenplays Author:Dito Montiel
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.” IfsMenMayProblemActorsSocialBlackWhiteRaceClassStagePositionEvolutionWeightCastsProductionsExecutivesMixing Author:Howard Schultz
“I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.” MenCharacterWantedActorsCastsCharacter ActorsNicholson Author:Robert Shaw
“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.” KnowsActorsRoomsCuttingCastsScoreEditing Author:Albert Brooks
“Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.” MenActorsCastsGreat Actors Author:Julie Adams