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I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
Till 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai,' I was involved in everything from casting to scripting. Then I shifted to a separate house.
I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
There's definitely been times when I've been on sets and I was the bigger model in the room, where they're casting girls.
Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.
Music has to be treated in the same way as set design, casting, or choice of location - it has to start at the same time.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.
People are catching on to diversity and colour-blind casting. For me, it meant turning down certain work and making a stand.
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.
I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
If there is anybody who can give you a combination of quality and reasonable budget, innovative content and casting, it is me!
As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.
Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.
I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.
I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.
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 had actually auditioned for a guest star role on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and the show had the same casting director as 'Riverdale.'
When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.
Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.