Quotes About Casting

When K. Balachander saw me for the first time, he booked me for three films and asked me to learn Tamil first.

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.

When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, 'Enough of them! Don't touch the 'Glee' kids, because you can't use them!'

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

When I found out about being cast in 'Spider-Man,' it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, 'Well, I'm just an actor. I don't get to actually be Spider-Man.'

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting.

Loveleen Tandon, the casting director of 'Brick Lane,' understood my capacity and suggested my name to director Sarah Gavron. The film has such universal appeal that given a chance I would like to remake it in Hindi.

My agent suggested me to EastEnders casting director, Julia Crampsie, who I already knew. I'm delighted that Julia said, He's not old enough is he?' My agent told her how old I really am and she said Oh'!

I don't act. I am the way I am, and choose roles that I think suit my body language.

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

I badly wanted to play Dr. Aziz but I knew I wasn't going to get it. I didn't go to be interviewed until I finally was forced to by the director I was working with in Calcutta. I thought, they aren't going to give me that part. I didn't want to go there and be told I wasn't good enough, or that I didn't suit the part.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face.

I didn't think of my job as wanting roles I want to do but roles that suit me.

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.

I've always played negative roles because I think I'm better suited for them.