Best Casts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.”

World Firsts Made Stars Tvs Members Expectations Casts Weed Pilots Guests Guest Stars Cast Members

Author:Kevin Nealon

“Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.”

Humans Wells Real Roles Rights Theater Institutions Human Rights Casts Iraq Israel Absurd Villain Unfortunate Committees Saddam Disarmament Libya

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.”

Thinking Feels Seems Actors Interesting Clear Casts Movie Tracy

Author:Jack Nicholson

“When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.”

People Matter Dies Majority Democrat Casts Barack Obamacare Affordable

Author:Bob Beauprez

“I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.”

Humans Bigs Together Roots Casts Contact Working Together

Author:Chris Noth

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

Believe Soul Reason Body Time Numbers Casts Dimensions

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.”

Ifs Knows Feels Roles Casts If I Could Twilight

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.”

Stones Anger Casts Nests Wasps

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?”

Ifs Way Kind Problem Light Spirit Grew Grew Up Casts Bored Why Not Shopping Superficial Lifting Puritanism

Author:Miuccia Prada

“As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.”

Ifs Long Care Casts Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Chris Pratt

“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”

Eye Hell Shadow Casts Covering Gloomy Vapor

Author:Jean Racine

“I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.”

Ifs Thinking Should Different Actors Views Casts Department Lead In Helm

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.”

Mind Children Ends Lasts Directors Casts Producers Breathing Your Children The End Of The Day Mates

Author:John Ratzenberger

“We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.”

Men Soul Loses Casts Satan Anchors Cast Away

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.”

Government Interest Doubt Saws Streets Wings Casts Conservative Brown Voting Labour Realising Scotland Right Wing Downing Downing Street

Author:Jimmy Reid

“I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.”

Different Done Play Fun My Own Directors Theater Tables Scripts Casts Classic Screenplays Live Theater

Author:Jason Reitman

“I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.”

Girl Casts Pretty Girl

Author:Christina Ricci

“Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.”

Casts Features Wicked Witch Wicked Witch

Author:Alan Rickman

“I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.”

Knows Bigs Universe Actors Know How Happened Lucky Red International Casts Widows Ensemble So Lucky

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.”

Ifs Might Wanted Casts Versions Resemblance Gaddafi

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.”

Humans States Language Moral Roles Taken Rights Authority Highest Human Rights Casts Jew Holocaust Assault Judaism Hiroshima Pristine Moral Authority Jewish Life

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.”

Men Way Philosophy Light Would Be Moving Literature Achieve Design Ultimate Casts Philosopher Mysterious Triumph Providence Mysterious Ways

Book:The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Source: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

“Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.”

Writing Mean Two Hard Decision Subjects Casts Columns Pundits Hard Decision

Author:William Safire

“I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.”

Want Stories Casts Ensemble Antagonist

Author:Zoe Saldana

“All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.”

“Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.”

People Giving Writing Has Beens Art Artist Rich Magic Complexes Casts Making Money Spells Adore Rich People Get Rich Alchemy

Author:Jerry Saltz

“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”

Giving Stories Shadow Philosophical Casts Myth Substance

Book:Esoteric Christianity

Source: Esoteric Christianity

“The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.”

Men Giving May Philosophy Character Pleasure Common Wife Casts Stranger Resent Common Man Aspersion

Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.”

Ifs Shadow Tables Casts Negotiation Bargaining Euphemism Capitulation

Author:George P. Shultz

“It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?”

Kind Shows Doctors Casts Sincere Grey Boast Anatomy Triangles Love Triangle Grey's Anatomy

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”

Inspirational Motivation Hope Behinds Sun Journey Angel Shadow Casts Burden Never Lose Hope Losing Hope Hope Inspirational Hopes Up Wishes And Hopes

Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.”

People Firsts Long Play Character Long Time Casts Girlfriend

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.”

Way Pieces Grew Originals Casts

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.”

Want Writing Whole Shows Casts Score

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.”

People Sometimes Shows Casts Producers

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.”

World Way Cities Player Influence Streets Rocks Band Jazz Casts Wide Primitive Trumpets Garage Guitarist Kansas Kansas City

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.”

Trying Character Causes Deals Doubt Casts Seeking Reputation Damage

Author:Cat Stevens

“I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.”

Children Two Would Be Kids Young Stuff Watches Tvs Type Casts Porsche

Author:Kristen Stewart

“He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.”

Imagine My Favorite Casts Excited Charlie Chaplin

Author:Emma Stone

“When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.”

Knows Needs Kind Character Facts Happens Universe Clear Focus Casts Weed Main Characters

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”

May Facts Reality Christ Doubt Birth Eternal Miracle Historical Casts Christmas Resurrection Ascension Historical Facts

Book:The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

Source: The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”

Literature House Judgment Vote Casts Harm Arise

Author:Aeschylus

“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.”

World Light Christian Heaven Hell Becoming Devil Angel Casts Satan Rebellion Crew

Book:Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?

Source: Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?

“It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.”

Jobs Doubt Perfection Casts

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.”

Want Needs Character Casts Family Friends Reassurance Loving Family Rewarding Experiences

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”

Girl Careers Casts Chinese Frontiers Aristocracy Arabian Polynesians

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Character Can Do Materials Directors Yeah Casts Looking Forward Can Do Something

Author:Orlando Bloom

“I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.”

Trying Years Casts

Author:Gabrielle Union

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

Casts Quotes

Related topics

Casts Quotes