Quotes About Casting

In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

I was up for 'Harry Potter' way, way back. But I don't quite fit the bill, I think.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast. I always do a rewrite based on the conversations.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

If I am part of a movie, the character I handle should make sense to me at first and should also be convincing to the audiences, in terms of casting.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

In a film like 'Kannathil Muthamittal,' I can't have a Rajnikanth or a Kamal Haasan. If you have a star, the expectation of the film is different. So, you cast according to the subject of the film. Some films are best done with stars because it gives you a base on which if you can get the correct performance, you can reach higher.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I look 13, so was always being asked to play the crying girl.

I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.

If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting - so that's 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.