Line #23 Quotes/DawsonCasting


1	->''"Wow, Miranda's getting good! Maybe when she's thirty years old she can play a teenager on Dawson's Creek."''
2	-->-- '''Lizzie''', ''Series/LizzieMcGuire''
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4	->''"She's running away from home and she's only thirty!"''
5	-->-- '''Butthead''', commenting on the music video for Music/PatBenatar's "Love is a Battlefield", ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''
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7	->''"Let's have a warm welcome for the stars of the popular teen soap opera, ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Springfield Heights 90210]]''! He's cool, he's sexy, he's 34 years old! Say hello to Kyle Darren!"'' [Darren smiles, obvious wrinkles show on his face]
8	-->-- '''Kent Brockman''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. The Monorail]]"
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10	->''"These guys probably had sons the same age as their characters."''
11	-->-- '''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Mike Nelson]]''' commenting on the "teenagers" of ''Film/ReeferMadness''
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13	->'''Cdr. Jansen:''' ''(referring to Jansen's daughter [[note]]played by the visibly middle-aged Cisse Cameron[[/note]])'' Can you remember when you were that young?
14	->'''Tom Servo (as Capt. Devers):''' I ''am'' that young!
15	-->--''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny riffs]] ''Film/SpaceMutiny''
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17	->[Deep voice] ''"I'm 15, really."''
18	-->-- '''"Robin"''', Podcast/RiffTrax of ''Film/BatmanForever''
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20	->''"I don't think anyone in the casting department has ever ''seen'' a real teenager."''
21	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers''
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23	->'''Principal:''' You're already repeating your senior year.\
24	'''Obscurus Lupa:''' How many times, eight?
25	-->-- ''[[Creator/AllisonPregler Obscurus Lupa Presents:]] Sleepy Hollow High''
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28	->''"...there's no real age limit, although we cast age-appropriate''\
29	''(meaning that an actor needs to be roughly the same age as the character he/she plays)."''
30	-->-- '''Stephen Stohn''' via {{Website/Twitter}}, describing a [[{{Franchise/Degrassi}} famous subversion]].
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32	->''"If the report is that the children are too old for their characters; then that’s ridiculous. It's BEYOND ridiculous. The other show I’m a huge fan of right now is ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars''. Some of the 16 year old characters on that show are LITERALLY 26 and 28 in real life. So the kids of ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}'' ARE IN NO WAY TOO OLD FOR THEIR PARTS."''
33	-->-- [[http://saveoutnumbered.blogspot.com "Catherine" of the Save Outnumbered Campaign]].
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35	->''"Hollywood Secret: If you put a 30-year-old in a letterman jacket, he's 16 again."''
36	-->-- '''Vanessa Ramos''', comedian/comedy writer, [[https://twitter.com/thatRamosgirl/status/249693261134979072 via Twitter]].
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38	->''"Hollywood's version of high school is filled with students so far along in their maturation they appear to have kissed the ravages of puberty goodbye sometime during the Clinton administration...Not only is it distracting when the adults and "kids" look roughly the same age, it also sets up false expectations for teens. Most male high school students aren't broad-shouldered, deep-voiced men sporting a five o'clock shadow by fourth period."''
39	-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-unwritten-rules-hollywood-needs-to-stop-following/ 5 Unwritten Rules Hollywood Needs to Stop Following]]''
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41	->''"As we do discover, the people in this town are not very bright, which is why all the high school students are forty years old. They're the same age as the teachers. […] The only way I could keep track of who was the teacher and who was the student is that the teacher had a Creator/TomSelleck mustache."''
42	-->--'''Jay Bauman''', ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' Episode 70 (''Black Roses'')
43
44	->''Notes: Summoner with a horn / Precocious / Big Bridge's caretaker / She doesn't ''sound'' 6!''
45	-->-- '''Who's Who''' page on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Eiko Carol]], ''VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy''
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47	->''"'Teenager' must mean something else in space - cuz, I mean, these guys look like... thirty-somethings. Y’know, my age."''
48	-->-- '''[[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]]''' (on ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace''), ''Pinball/ElvirasHouseOfHorrors''
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50	->''"It's age-blind casting!"''
51	-->-- '''Kaveh Taherian''' (in the ''[=MusicalSplaining=]'' podcast, discussing the 2015 ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'' revival)
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53	-> ''"Between seasons 2 and 3 [of Series/{{Glee}}], news began to break that most of the cast would be graduating at the end of the third season. Obviously the cast couldn't stay forever, or else they'd look... even older than they already are."''
54	-->-- '''WebVideo/MicTheSnare''', "[[https://youtu.be/2a8FEqrG8c4 Here's What We Missed on Glee]]"
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56	->'''Josh:''' And, by the way, that girl [Betsy] is apparently much younger than she looks.\
57	'''Melissa:''' Yeah, I tried to warn you. Have you not seen ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''? Liesl is 16 going on 29.
58	-->-- ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}''
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60	->'''Ron:''' But aren't [Heather and Quinn] a little old to play us?\
61	'''Jimmy Blamhammer:''' Haven't you heard the expression "act your age"?\
62	'''Ron:''' But they're 28.\
63	'''Blamhammer:''' What did I say? They'll be acting ''your'' age, not ''their'' age. See? It's Hollywood magic.
64	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', "[[Recap/KimPossibleS3E11AndtheMoleRatWillBeCGI And the Mole Rat Will Be CGI]]"
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66	->''"Creator/{{Zendaya}} is here from ''Series/{{Euphoria}}''. Hello, Zendaya. [She] just turned twenty-six last week, happy birthday. Twenty-six is a weird age in Hollywood: I mean, you're young enough to play a high school student, but you're too old to date Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio."''
67	-->--'''Creator/KenanThompson''''s [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9qVPGsfmw opening monologue]] at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards
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69	->'''Ange''': I'm surprised a 20-year-old can masquerade as a student.\
70	'''Dorothy''': Wh--what choice did I have?! I'm following orders! Besides, I do ''look'' like a secondary-school student, don't I? Hmm?\
71	'''Ange''': Your class must be especially kind.\
72	'''Dorothy''': ''Don't make it sound like they pity me.''
73	-->--''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'', "Dancy Conspiracy"

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