Every script I got sent had Cary Grant's pawprints all over it.
Usually the scripts I get have got Brad Pitt's fingerprints on them, or Leonardo DiCaprio's.
It's the first time I haven't had a script with Paul Newman's and Robert Redford's fingerprints all over it. The producers actually came to me first.
— Burt Reynolds on Deliverance
There have been a number of projects where I've said no to, whether it's cause I was just too busy. For instance, the remake of Tales of Vesperia; 'cause I've voice matched for Troy Baker on a number of things when he got too busy to do some of the projects that he had originally began, which made for a tenuous beginning of our friendship. I was like "I don't know what to do!" But, we're fine now. But, for that bit, I was approached to possibly do that, I was very busy, and also, I didn't want to continue a trend of being known as the "budget Baker", if that makes sense. Like, I covered for him on a number of projects, and I found myself in a place where I know somebody else who could probably use this more than I could and step up to the plate, and yeah, I didn't want to continue this trend of being "the guy that covers for Troy when he can't do it". So I politely declined that project.
— Matthew Mercer during this interview
If you want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law, wait. It's not the same thing, okay? (...) If you want Russell Crowe and all you can get is Colin Farrell, wait! It’s not the same thing, okay? Alexander is not Gladiator. Ja Rule is not Tupac, you got that? (...) If want Denzel Washington and all you can get is me, wait! Okay? Denzel’s a fine actor. He would never do Pootie Tang, you got that?
— Chris Rock calling out on this trope during the 2005 Oscars
Indira: A doctor heals, a DJ spins, Jessica Chastain takes whatever gig Amy Adams says no to.
[later]
Mary-Beth: A doctor heals, a DJ spins, Bryce Dallas Howard takes the gigs Jessica Chastain says no to.
[later]
Mary-Beth: A doctor heals, a DJ spins, Bryce Dallas Howard takes the gigs Jessica Chastain says no to.
— BoJack Horseman, "INT. SUB"
