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KATE O'MARA I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an A...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting direct...
MICHAEL SOCHA
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Har... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films th...
MILA KUNIS People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi...
RORY CULKIN
I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... MARA WILSON I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I'...
VALERIA GOLINO I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I ...
STEPHEN DALDRY
I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point ... TENA DESAE I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But pe...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p... STEVE EARLE I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because e...
SATYAJIT RAY My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an...
NAVEEN ANDREWS
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're ... XAVIER DOLAN
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don... CHARLES BRONSON
Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right... ELODIE YUNG I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
MAIA MITCHELL I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out...
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don...
RITA MORENO
I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing. BILL MUMY
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to s... OZZY OSBOURNE
I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead o... ROBIN WRIGHT I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really...
RUTGER HAUER It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
BILLY BRAGG There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won...
LALAINE
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ... VERONICA ROTH
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in any... MALLORY JANSEN I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul...
BRUCE COCKBURN I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
IDA LUPINO I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'Wha...
JON SCIESZKA
I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the produce... EMRAAN HASHMI The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're ...
NIGEL COLE
I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jer... GERARD WAY
I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to. BO BURNHAM I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w...
CALLAN MCAULIFFE I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's t...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI
I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to w... KIRSTEN DUNST
I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because ... CAROLYN KIZER I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.
AUSTIN NICHOLS
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce m... BARBARA WALTERS I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody... EARTHA KITT I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great w...
BEATRICE ARTHUR I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church...
HOZIER
I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver wh... MARTIN LAWRENCE I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to t...
KATE O'MARA It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel li...
DREW BREES
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing fr... TADANOBU ASANO I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAi...
REE DRUMMOND
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I... JACK MCBRAYER I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
DAMIAN LEWIS Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditionin...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA
'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have ... JOHN GROGAN
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I ... QUENTIN TARANTINO Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi...
CARLOS PONCE
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't kno... SOFIA VERGARA In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagul...
KIMBERLEY NIXON I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want...
ADRIENNE SHELLY
I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I ... JEFF BUCKLEY
I love all the girls who have my song on their myspaces. I love the people who come to my shows and ... TAYLOR SWIFT
Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school... CAROLINE WINBERG I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportiv...
JOE JOHNSTON If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting...
CATHERINE KEENER There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because o...
SARA SAMPAIO
I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a n... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is uppe...
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. ...
PADDY CONSIDINE
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherit... LEV GROSSMAN When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. la...
BECKI NEWTON I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audien...
DOUG HUTCHISON
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing... LUKE BRYAN
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did... LAWRENCE WELK
I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the com... SHOSHANNAH STERN
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death t... PLATON Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only w...
CLEO MOORE
I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be m... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't ...
JASON O'MARA Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me ...
VIRGINIE LEDOYEN My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark...
J. R. SMITH
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, ... DENNIS QUAID I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
HAL HOLBROOK
When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new... YUNA
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali... GABRIEL BYRNE As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, bu...
B. D. WONG I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have ...
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like ... RYAN GOSLING My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I a...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tang...
SHREYA GHOSHAL
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they&#... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t... DAN HICKS
Guys never looked at me. I always had crushes on older seniors who never looked at me. So, when I te... KATRINA KAIF What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometime...
BUCK HENRY
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after... ELLEN BURSTYN
I have some director friends who have said that they don't really like working with actors - directo... BRUCE BERESFORD Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me...
JIM PARSONS
