Quotes About Casting

It is very hard for me to think of Logan without thinking of Hugh Jackman and I have no idea who out there could take over from him if they moved ahead. It's like thinking of anyone other than Harrison Ford playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones.

Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.

Somehow, casting directors tell me that I don't have that innocent face to play a lead on TV. I only get negative roles to play.

The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

The camera caught me just by chance, in a fleeting movement in another actor's show reel. That's how I landed 'Ramayan.'

Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and the lack of diversity.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

Meeting with the director is an audition.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

I doubt I will ever be in another Michael Bay movie.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

I was one of the shortlisted girls for the female lead of the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' along with Freida Pinto.

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in roles in Chicago that I never would have gotten cast in possibly if I had come to New York right away. I got to be the not-your-typical-choice for a role.

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

I felt like I wasn't considered for minority or Caucasian male lead roles. There aren't really a lot of roles written for me, and I mean me and who I am in real life.

He was casting a big Rapala with three treble hooks which his grandfather had given him. He was fishing too fast, casting again and again, retrieving too fast, until he was red-faced and his tee-shirt stuck to him.

the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike.

By extension, River was Moses, already they were casting him as a future prophet