I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
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.
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.
The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.
Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members o...
Buford's Gang Member #2: Hey, take a gander at them moccasins! What kinda skins is them? What's that writin' mean? Buford's Gang Member #1: "Nee-kay"? What is that, some sorta Injun talk or somethin'?
I was not a member of the SS.
Lady of the silver moon Enchantress of the night Protect me and mine within this circle fairly cast. Earth Mother, mother of the sleeping earth, Keep safe all who gather here Within the protective shelter of your arms. By the earth that is Her body, ...
It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter ac...
When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new p...
In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to conver...
Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to me during that last unfortunate phone call was that I had shattered our family's myth: the myth ...
Castes never meant that much to me.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.
People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'
