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Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

— Geoffrey Rush

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.

— Bill Camp

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

— David S. Goyer

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

— Catherine Keener

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

— Ang Lee

I cast unusual people in my movies.

— Albert Brooks

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

— Lee Child

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

— Fran Kranz

✗Opposing Perspectives

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.

— Jason Reitman