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Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.
I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years.
I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.
Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.
When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.
I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it's always considered creative casting.
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.
In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background
You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.
AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.
Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.
If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.
Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
I've been at this a long time, but commercials are what hit for me. Casting directors watch those commercials.
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.
It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.
For me, casting is very instinctive, and if I don't feel good about it, I just can't go ahead and make the film.
There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.
Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.