Tanya Fischer Quotes

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

I still have to audition for most things.

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.

When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?'

When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.

I know a lot of times you don't even get the opportunity to audition for people you really want to work with because there is a business angle involved.