Gerry Schoenfeld told me ‘Les Parents Terribles’ was not going to sell, even though we had Kathleen Turner and Jude Law in the cast. So we called it ‘Indiscretions.’
When I was on ‘Complete Savages,’ the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.
When I realized that you can’t necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.
I’m usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
The cast of ‘Zoey 101’ are like a family to me.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, ‘You know, this just isn’t the life for me.’
I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on ‘Modern Family.’
I get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
I was always cast doing something athletic. I can’t do a cartwheel.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
A casting director who’d cast me in ‘Assassins’ sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing ‘187.’ Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
A lot of times when people cast me, they want this big, deep black voice… And I tend to recycle them with different roles from time to time.
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it’s a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.
For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don’t take for granted. It’s tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one’s going to cast me just because I’m James Franco’s little brother.
I had worked with Pranay Dixit in a film, who also hails from Lucknow. I always wanted to cast him for some of my projects as I believe he is brilliant at his craft of an actor.
When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.
George W. Bush, though a president’s son, is cast as Reagan’s heir even more than his father’s.
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially ‘True Blood.’ I’m obsessed with it. I got to meet the entire cast at Comic-Con and hang out with them. And that was awesome. I basically died and went to heaven.
You should really cast a big net when it comes to life and learning. In the end, you’re so much better for it.
I cast my first vote on my father’s lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
I’d like to be involved in ‘SNL’ somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That’s pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.
I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
Yes, Barack Obama could easily be cast as an American president in a movie or TV show.
Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you’ve done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put ‘treat yo self’ key chains in there. And people send me pictures of ‘treat yo self’ all the time.
There were rumors I wasn’t going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor – I’m not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
Working on ‘Austin and Ally’ has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it’s scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other’s dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
If you’re blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn’t just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
I think it’s particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, ‘Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie’s not going to be about the intricacies of the game.’ I mean, you wouldn’t cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
At ‘SNL’ there’s framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It’s linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you’re at the end of it.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
The Doctor’ is the kind of character – because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the ‘Doctor’- when you’re there, you’re in it a lot. You’re speaking a lot.
People aren’t paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they’re paying to see the cast of ‘Glee.’
I’ve said maybe too many times that I’d rather be typecast than not cast at all.
A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for ‘Robin Hood.’
Immigration is not about visa numbers or building a fence. It is about reclaiming our roots as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for those who have been cast aside.
It’s not about the script: it’s about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ and I felt slighted and wounded.
This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
At any period of an actor’s life, it’s fairly likely that they’ll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That’s the way it goes.
I’ve never worried about being typecast – I’ve only ever worried about being not cast!
Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don’t really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at ‘Straight Outta Compton’ years from now like this was an all-star cast.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It’s all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who’s more interested in being married than in getting married.
Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
There’s not one cast member of 90210 who didn’t throw a tantrum to two themselves.
I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that there’s nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.
