Auditions Quotes · Page 3

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

— Al Pacino

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

— Evangeline Lilly

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

— Dawn French

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

— Helena Bonham Carter

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

— Nicole Byer

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

— David Henry Hwang

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

— Michael Ealy

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

— Paula Abdul

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

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

— Robert Pattinson

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

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

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

You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very…

— Benicio Del Toro

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me…

— Jason Ritter

My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn…

— Charley Boorman

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if…

— Luke Benward

I always view auditions as the first and last time I'll ever do a character, so that's how I like to see…

— Mena Massoud

I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street…

— Nico Tortorella

No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to…

— Lauren Socha

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what…

— Kelly Clarkson

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my…

— Alexander Ludwig

I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said…

— James Monroe Iglehart

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because…

— Diana Ross

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about…

— Aldis Hodge

The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle…

— Gabourey Sidibe

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of…

— Ben Feldman

Auditions are just another chance to act - that's why I love them.

— Charlotte Hope

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

— Tom Riley

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

— Bob Fosse

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

— Emilie de Ravin

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

— Tom Sturridge

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

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