You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.
I started out to be a sex fiend, but I couldn't pass the physical.
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
I auditioned for 'The Lord of the Rings,' I auditioned for the part of Sam, and I didn't get very far… they wanted people that were taller and alter them in Computer Generated Images, so I never got a call back.
