Quotes About Casting

Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.

I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.

I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

I think there's something about supernatural shows that people see and just want to put me in them! I don't know. I just finished another show - 'The Nine Lives of Chloe King,' with Skyler Samuels, who was my girlfriend in 'The Gates' - and I play another supernatural character on that show.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

You have actors you've worked with previously, and you have actors you haven't worked with that you've seen in things where you know they can work in these parts. And then there are actors who blow you away, who surprise you.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

It still surprises me when I get cast in something. I'm not your, you know, I'm... I remember thinking really early on that you have to look a particular way and I'm quite aware of my look, so I always thought I wouldn't get a lot of screen work.

If you're writing a bi character, did you look at a lot of bi actors for the role? Did you really go and find people that identified as queer? If you did, then great, and if you didn't find anyone you liked in that pool, well, that's surprising. If you write a character that's trans, the time is now - cast a trans actor.