Quotes About Casting

In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.