Cast Size Quotes

We have table reads for every episode of 'Billions.' The core cast is smaller than the core cast on 'Orange Is the New Black,' so in that sense, it has more of a theater vibe.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

I'm not supporting nor not supporting TV casting shows - there is no doubt they are created for financial reasons - but I don't have a problem with wanting to sell tickets, and if you want to do an arena version of a rock musical, you have to sell a lot of tickets to justify the cast.

There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

Just the number of people - 'Silicon Valley''s a relatively small, core cast, whereas 'The Office' was enormous. Also, I feel more of a sense of ownership of 'Silicon Valley' because I've been there from the get-go.

This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast" -it is from the most amazing health and hygiene ... properly air conditioned, properly irrigated with hot and cold running water... Obviously, FOX is paying for it, so in terms of expenditure it's far more economical and on the back of the draw were 22,500 cast. Finding 30 chefs in that bunch wasn't difficult.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.

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

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

Juggling a huge cast is a bear.

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