Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
'30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-no...
All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his h...
Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.
A brick could be cast in Samuel Jackson roles. It would be cheaper and more dramatic.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
And then there was the way you cast your gaze, A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire.
