Quotes About Casting

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something.

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

I can do so many accents that I'll never be able to use. There aren't casting calls for a black guy to play a Scottish highlander. I can hope. I've got my brogue ready. I just need the opportunity!

I get really sad when people say, 'I'm no good. I haven't been cast in a pilot.' It doesn't mean you're not good; it just means someone hasn't seen you yet. It doesn't mean that in real life you're not the greatest actor.

Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

There are many good-looking actors.

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

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.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

I can't play a 65-year-old grandfather, as much as I'd like to.

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.