Quotes About Casting

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

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.

I vividly remember my first interaction with Sir Richard Attenborough, I was in my final year at NSD (National School of Drama) in 1979, and casting director Dolly Thakore got in touch with me. We weren't supposed to work outside NSD but special permission was granted to the students who were shortlisted for the audition.

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

When you're writing a pilot, unless you already have an actor attached to the project, you're writing it with all the voices sort of in your head. Once you actually cast it, the actors become the voices of the characters, and you start to write for them and their strengths.

An actor like me hardly ever sees a producer. My agent will say, how about Coogan for the part. The producer will say yes. So you never see the producer.

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

When an actor gets a role, especially in series television where he really is the part, the audience never thinks of another actor playing that role. If they accept you in the role, then they can't separate the actor from the character.

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

I almost did 'Doctor Strange.' I went in to do a session to play Dormammu.

When we look to cast somebody who hasn't had any acting experience before, it's really essential we find somebody who at some level can just be themselves and who shares a lot in common with the character.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

Since I got into acting, I always wanted to play a bad guy.

Because of the way I look, I tend to play bad guys.

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.