Casting Success Quotes

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

I really liked it [The Andromeda Strain], and I don't know that it ever had the effect they were hoping for. I don't know if they got the audience we were hoping for. But I thought it was very fun, and I loved the character [Jack Nash] I was playing.

It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.