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“I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.”

People Faces Girl Lines Roles Adults Casts Definitions High Definition

Author:Selma Blair

“Cast parties are a lot of fun!”

Fun Party Casts

Author:Chris Colfer

“I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.”

Attitude Streets Casts Close Friends Coronation

Author:Richard Fleeshman

“I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!”

Firsts Play Feelings School Given Casts Broke Wow Freshman School Plays

Author:Katie Cassidy

“From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.”

Stories Groups Remains Casts Screens Versions Epic Ensemble Inception Epic Stories

Author:Bill Condon

“There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.”

Moments Depth Casts Overwhelming

Author:Bill Condon

“There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, "This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role." I pretend I'm the producer and I think, "If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?," and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Believe Has Beens Roles Scripts Casts Producers Auditions Feels Right

Author:Billy Campbell

“I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.”

Running Casts Tied Dc Comics

Author:Jaimie Alexander

“I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.”

Giving Has Beens I Can Roles Imagine Casts Imagine That Thumbs Jamie Thumbs Up

Author:Adam Arkin

“Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.”

Mind Stills Creative Position Casts Aspire Creative Mind

Author:Giorgio Armani

“You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.”

Ifs Way Character Body Ability Acting Company Fit Function Casts Your Body Definite Mold Lead In Tailors

Author:Neve Campbell

“I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.”

Mind Kind Has Beens Pride Fairs Casts Pantomime

Author:Simon Cowell

“The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.”

Situation Casts

Author:Illeana Douglas

“Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.”

Together Actors Casts

Author:Joyce DeWitt

“The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.”

Matter Lasts Vote Casts Polls

Author:Mario Diaz-Balart

“When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.”

Absolutes Casts Meat Vegetarian

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Character Next Walks Rooms Roles Doors Casts Agents Charming Charming Man

Author:Idris Elba

“For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.”

Littles Care Example Brother Smart Tough Casts Granted Managers My Brother Little Brother Franco

Author:Dave Franco

“When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.”

Firsts Looks Kind Persons Play Reality Wanted Acting Quality Roles Television Ideals Casts

Author:Erin Gray

“I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.”

People Thinking Has Beens Film Strong Integrity Regard Very Good Casts Strong Women Think Of Me

Author:Joan Allen

“As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.”

World Able Shadow Casts Londoners

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.”

Character Novel Aspect Casts Backgrounds Familiar

Author:Piers Anthony

“Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.”

Knows Firsts Who You Are Casts Down The Road

Author:Beth Behrs

“I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.”

Firsts Lucky Casts Productions Eight

Author:Emily Browning

“So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.”

Wells Names Pieces Four Tvs Blessed Lays Casts Forty Steel Blast

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.”

Way Inspirational My Own Ready Dancing Casts My Way Spells Fades Parades

Author:Bob Dylan

“Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.”

Humans Children Soul Feelings Mother Desire Parent Love Is Rich Security Source Blessing Casts Faith In God Nurture Spouse Human Soul Being A Mother Constancy Source Of Strength

Author:David A. Bednar

“. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.”

Men Should Mind Stills Hands Nature Emotion Regret Scene Solitude Eternal Casts Creator Improvement Contemplation Touched Wilderness Association Passing Away Cultivation Sublimity

Author:Thomas Cole

“If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.”

Ifs Wells Real Trouble Casts

Author:John Frankenheimer

“There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.”

Writing Firsts Moments Special Scene First Time Casts Checks Guts Spells

Author:Lev Grossman

“I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'”

Two Book Jobs Modern Months Casts Two Months Modern Family

Author:Sarah Hyland

“I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.”

Trying Games Waiting Casts Budgets Flux

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.”

People Trying Challenges Party Casts Labels Partisans Prisms Unanimity

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.”

Way Wells Looks Remember Actors Feet Six Casts Tall Auditions

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.”

People Film Stuff Roles Fit Directors Pages Casts Contribution

Author:Taylor Hackford

“I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.”

Ifs Sometimes Play Used Girl Sports Wonder Boys Roles Too Much Ought Casts Being The Best Truthful Gears Pretty Girl Sometimes I Wonder Supporting Roles Good Sports

Author:Celia Imrie

“I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.”

Way Actors Easy Roles New York Casts Italian Gangsters Easy Way Italian American

Author:Michael Imperioli

“Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!”

Knows Firsts Stills Enough Stories Know How Four Directors Hollywood Casts Accidents Approval Sheer

Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.”

People Thinking Want Believe Reason Home Directors Scripts Casts Great Things Lots Of Money

Author:Famke Janssen

“As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.”

Choices Actors Comedy Fine Casts

Author:Fran Kranz

“I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.”

People Knows Roles Casts Mediums Hopefully Visuals Having Hope Comedic

Author:Fran Kranz

“There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.”

People Trying Ideas Feelings Actors Waiting My Own Casts Admiration Frightening Powerless Whim

Author:Nick Kroll

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.”

Shadow Casts Umpires Darkness To Light Room With A View

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.”

Causes Party Vote Constitution Independence Casts Atmosphere Islamic Republic Inclination

Author:Ali Khamenei

“My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.”

Firsts Littles Play Acting Known Class Taught Opposites Casts Playwright Acting Classes

Author:John Mahoney

“It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.”

Firsts Hard Passion Fun Company Wonderful Hard Work Casts Having Fun Crew

Author:Juliet Mills

“I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.”

Kind Persons Different Character Certain Strong Type Quiet Casts Introverted Typecasting

Author:Kelly Macdonald

“He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.”

Men Eye Causes Wife Trouble Lessons Casts Revenge His Eyes Brown Jealous Retribution Jealous Man

Author:Jim Croce

“I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.”

Wife Casts Girlfriend Dependable Affable Loving Friends

Author:Rashida Jones

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