Quotes About Casting

Nina Gold is a fantastic casting director. She's doing the new 'Star Wars' movies, but she also does 'Game of Thrones' and many of the Working Title movies, and she did 'Rush.'

I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.

I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

If 'Mr. India 2' happens, Calendar should be there.

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Cast is everything.

I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

I always wonder why people cast me in anything.