Cast Quotes

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball.

We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also.

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.