Auditions Quotes · Page 10

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

— Jared Harris

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

— Matthew Perry

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

— Lake Bell

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

— Paula Abdul

When you're an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions…

— Emma Corrin

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do,…

— Elmore Leonard

Both 'Dear Zindagi' and 'Hichki' did not come easily to me, I had to do multiple rounds of auditions.

— Rohit Saraf

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

— Cassie Ventura

I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands…

— Suzanne Shaw

It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have…

— Luke Mitchell

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more…

— Erika Christensen

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I…

— Lucy Fry

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of…

— Hilarie Burton

I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still…

— Jonathan Lipnicki

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no…

— Eddie Redmayne

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was…

— Scott Bakula

When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall…

— Mahershala Ali

I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was…

— Judd Nelson

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and…

— Alan Goldsher

I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these…

— Malin Akerman

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing…

— Bradley Whitford

I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area.…

— Bridgit Mendler

I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven,…

— Susan Sarandon

I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You…

— Jackee Harry

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.

— Shawn Ashmore

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll…

— Johnny Carson

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very…

— Will Estes

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't…

— Ben Stiller

Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.

— Matt Duffer

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like…

— Bill Nighy

Hopefully when I do auditions I do the best I can do at the time. That's all I have control over.

— Joel McHale

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

— Janina Gavankar

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat…

— Janet McTeer

I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd…

— Noureen DeWulf

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill…

— Rupert Friend

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions:…

— Kellan Lutz

If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were…

— Vicky McClure

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado…

— Celina Jade

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile…

— Chris Hemsworth

I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time."…

— Jon Gabrus