Quotes About Actors

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The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

Cast is everything.

I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?'

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

Casting is a big deal.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

I think casting in a comedy is all important.

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

You'll see a lot of actors doing adverts. There's a reason why. I could probably buy a castle if it were in somewhere like Lithuania. Not this country.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.