Auditions Quotes · Page 7

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

— Creed Bratton

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

— Dax Shepard

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

— Tucker Max

As for 'Supernatural,' I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.

— Julie McNiven

Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.

— Rachele Brooke Smith

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have…

— Eliza Coupe

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

— Archie Panjabi

Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.

— Francesca Gregorini

Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just…

— Carlos Mencia

When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I…

— Toby Lightman

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room…

— Jessie J

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do…

— Gemma Arterton

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't…

— Jennifer Aniston

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually…

— Madison Davenport

This is still true with auditions - you have to forget about them immediately. You have to put them out of your…

— Timothy Simons

I am sincerely grateful to everyone who did not let me pass my auditions. If I had gotten in too easily, I…

— IU

Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into…

— Guy Maddin

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is…

— Carey Mulligan

Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film…

— Lena Headey

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was…

— Lea Salonga

Well, I grew up in Maine, so it was an unlikely place to start. But my parents were really, really cool about…

— Anna Kendrick

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I…

— Ellen Barkin

“Addicts don't like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are…

— Oliver Markus

My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really…

— Ana Mulvoy-Ten

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

— Kevin Hart

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

— John C. McGinley

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed…

— Tanc Sade

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it…

— Ewan McGregor

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

— Robert Pattinson

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I…

— Adepero Oduye

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

— Morgan Saylor

I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.

— Erica Cerra

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

— Emilie de Ravin

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

— Tom Sturridge

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that…

— Kristen Connolly

I get really nervous at auditions. I know how to make people laugh, but auditions just really make me nervous.

— Carlos Mencia

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

— Anil Kapoor

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

— Rafe Spall

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

— Michael Shurtleff