Quotes About Casting Directors

#1. I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

Persis Khambatta

#2. Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

Brent Sexton

#3. 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.

Stephen Root

#4. When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

James Denton

#5. In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

Mario Lopez

#6. I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual ... those people have always been close to my heart.

Scarlett Johansson

#7. 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.

Naomi Campbell

#8. When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

Danielle Fishel

#9. The only casting directors who'd be willing to call Tommy in on the basis of this headshot were the ones curious about what it was like to be murdered.

Greg Sestero

#10. I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Norman Fell

#11. 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.

Jamie Chung

#12. I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

Tena Desae

#13. If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

Catherine Keener

#14. Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

Olivia Wilde

#15. So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

William Mapother

#16. As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

James Preston Rogers

#17. My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bella Thorne

#18. Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Barry Pepper

#19. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

Michael Socha

#20. The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.

Ruby Rose

#21. I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

Naya Rivera

#22. I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

Cassie Ventura

#23. I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

Carly Schroeder

#24. Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Charles Bronson

#25. Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

Allyn Rachel

#26. I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.

Marlee Matlin

#27. L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

Matt Walsh

#28. There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

Max Von Sydow

#29. I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

Daniel Radcliffe

#30. In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

Becki Newton

#31. I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me.

Luke Evans

#32. Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that.

Cary Fukunaga

#33. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

Neil Patrick Harris

#34. 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.

Randy Harrison

#35. As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

BD Wong

#36. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

Naveen Andrews

#37. Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Rob Lowe

#38. Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Nicole Ari Parker

#39. I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

Billy Bob Thornton

#40. It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

Nathalie Emmanuel

#41. As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

Mark Duplass

#42. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

Julian Fellowes

#43. I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

Helena Bonham Carter