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“It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.”

Littles Whole Feelings Lines Audience Laughing Fishing Bites Hook Casting

Author:Jim Dale

“Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”

Hair Cooking Casting Asparagus

Author:Curly Howard

“No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!”

Thinking Happens Stars Type Casts Casting Typecasting

Author:Jonathan Frakes

“My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.”

Love Firsts Age Used Given Chance Industry Directors Decided London Agents Interviews Tape Casting Sweden Casting Directors

Author:Alicia Vikander

“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.”

Made Running Force Space Air Directors Made It Islands Casting Philippines Air Force Casting Directors

Author:R. Lee Ermey

“I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.”

Doe Sometimes Feelings Film Guy Asks Walks Clear Cutting Hollywood Finals Scripts Studios Crafts Discussion Investigation Casting Interference Ambivalent Hollywood Studios

Author:Mike Leigh

“There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.”

People Looks Different Parent Roles Grateful Complicated Like Me Casting Different Looks

Author:Meaghan Rath

“The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.”

Stories Use Wanted Horror Directors Agents Casting Using Me Horror Stories Casting Directors

Author:Matthew McGrory

“Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'”

Involved Exciting Originals Hey Twilight Casting Loops Really Awesome

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.”

Thinking Writing Book Twilight Publishing Casting

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.”

Years School Jobs Bits Pieces Goes On Train Uniforms Casting Bits And Pieces School Uniforms

Author:Kate Moss

“I do a pretty good job at casting actually.”

Jobs Good Job Casting

Author:Ridley Scott

“Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.”

Real Feelings Black Environment Sky Particular Fine Fit Rain Being True Atmosphere Extras Neighborhood Casting Leather Manhattan Patents Misty Movie Sets Drizzle Soho

Author:Candace Bushnell

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

“In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?”

Wonder Late Shadow Philosophical Afternoon Casting Late Afternoon

Author:Robert Breault

“It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.”

Self Accepting Devil Casting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.”

Way Mean Self Enough Spells Fulfilling Prophecy Casting Hood Enough Time Cloaks Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Author:Feist

“When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”

Men World Soul Moving Spirit Causes Wealth Animal Comfort Response Drawing Pursuit Impulse Awe Casting Pursuit Of Happiness Irresistible Stirring

Book:The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

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

Wells Acting Taught Moved Casting

Author:David Morrissey

“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.”

Film Actors Elements Combination Working It Casting

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“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.”

People Knows Men Firsts Looks Problem Government Individual Can Do Duty Men And Women Casting Intervention Neighbour Government Intervention Individuals And Society

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Use Memories Wonder Wonderful Scene First Time Oneself Customs Casting Casting Off

Book:The Old Wives' Tale

Source: The Old Wives' Tale

“Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.”

Vote Genre Categories Dislike Irrelevant Casting

Author:Tanith Lee

“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.”

People Writing Film Easy Color Directors Hollywood Blind British Mainstream Not Interested Casting Easy To Get

Author:Naveen Andrews

“One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.”

World Wells Names Known Heard Youth Bird Exciting West Well Known Casting Protagonists West Indies

Author:Ian Fleming

“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.”

Needs Different Reason Use Actors Roles Stress Casting Suitable

Author:Stephen Chow

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

Disappointment Hardest Casting Heartbreaking

Author:Stockard Channing

“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.”

People World Real Shows Pay Students College Real World Casting Loan Student Loan

Author:Trishelle Cannatella

“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.”

Looks Shows Faces Girl Black Casting Asian

Author:Jourdan Dunn

“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.”

Firsts Jobs Summer Plant South Experts Engineers Mum Electricity Casting Maintenance Electrical

Author:Oleg Deripaska

“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.”

Firsts Looks Long Stills Character Shows Directors Long Time Producers Teenager Casting Casting Directors

Author:Danielle Fishel

“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.”

People Knows Looks Models Casting Distaste

Author:Karen Gillan

“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.”

Actors Elements Normal Scripts Productions Editing Casting Edits Downtime

Author:Richard Dean Anderson

“My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.”

People Children Whole Waiting Perfect Shoulders Casting

Author:Wes Anderson

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

Has Beens Actors Names Records Findings Track Casting Track Record

Author:Mireille Enos

“I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.”

People Kind Remember Turns Universe Views Figures Meant To Be Wow Casting

Author:Peter Farrelly

“I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.”

Has Beens Stills Shows Perfect Wife Modern Let Me My Wife Brilliant Casting Modern Family

Author:Josh Gad

“People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.”

People Authority Casting

Author:Linda Hunt

“Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.”

People Thinking Trying Play Whole Process Effort Involved Bunch Casting Playwright

Author:David Ives

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