Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."
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Casting
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Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."
Jay London
Comedian
"I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast."
Jenny McCarthy
Actress, Model, Television Host
"I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections."
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"Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock"
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"I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent."
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"Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote."
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"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
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"In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult."
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"Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages."
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"Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell."
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"Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!""
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"When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then..."
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"It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them."
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"I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally."
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"Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business."
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"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."
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"For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly."
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"Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil."
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"There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings."
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