I’m usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.
The thrill of doing ‘Good People’ is I love those kinds of stories, and I’m good at them, and it’s wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old’s begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, ‘OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I’ll take it on the chin but I’ll show you – I’m going to be a big actor some day.’
It’s like a cast of actors; you’re all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it’s like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
I think when you’re dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it’s important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
The ‘Kickin’ It’ set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, ‘Bleak House’ is, for many readers, Dickens’s greatest novel.
I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.
Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can’t just wait to be cast in a film.
I created a show called ‘Crash’ for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn’t really enjoy the movie ‘Crash.’
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina,’ that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
Between ‘Futurama’ and ‘Simpsons,’ I’m able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of ‘Star Trek.’ It’s great, you know; it’s great to work with such talented people.
‘The Outsiders’ cast in particular was a joy to be around – sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.
I’m having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life – on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state – must be cast in the language of human rights.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
‘Black Swan’ was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I’ve just admired for so many years.
It’s very important to have a good relationship with the crew and cast because you want to get the best out of them. They’ll work really hard for you if they like you.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Usually, you see this play as a guy who can’t make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I’ve never seen a ‘Hamlet’ this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it’s quite a spectacle.
I’d like to work more, but I don’t just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I’d like to be cast against type.
I play the leading lady in Arjun Rampal’s latest production, ‘Daddy’. It’s a very bold, performance-oriented role, and the team had originally cast someone else. However, when Arjun saw my performance in ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ he roped me in.
I’ve always liked shows that have a strong cast of secondary characters. One of the greatest examples ever I would say is ‘The Simpsons.’ If you think about it, you could name 100 characters recognizable from that show. I think ‘Scrubs’ has done a good job of having a strong team coming off the bench.
‘Wings’ was a blessing, but it was also very difficult. Whenever you do situation comedy, no matter how excellent the execution – and we had a great cast and great writers – but the format is somewhat limited.
I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar’s ‘The Yellow Boat.’
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
With the exception of ‘Descent,’ that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn’t seen anything like that before.
When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
I loved working with ‘The Avengers’ cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
When people ask me if I’m liberal or conservative, I say, ‘Yeah.’ I’m both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn’t be cast aside.
I am beyond excited to be working with the BBC as part of the cast of ‘Thirteen.’
The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David’s story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.
I usually played out and out heavies. No one else ‘saw’ me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. ‘There is the man for Julio,’ she said, ‘He, and no one other.’
I signed up for ‘Brothers & Sisters’ because I think it’s a really great show. I like my character, and I’m really interested in what he has to do every day – and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
