Auditions Quotes · Page 8

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

— Zachary Quinto

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first…

— Haley Joel Osment

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

— Demi Lovato

Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope…

— Dana Gould

I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than…

— Aaron Korsh

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

— Sarah Shahi

I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

— Gattlin Griffith

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than…

— Grace Jones

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting…

— Danny Strong

Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups…

— Gregory Nicotero

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked,…

— Julia Ormond

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the…

— Teddy Sears

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a…

— Charlize Theron

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense…

— Jenifer Lewis

And then I saw this article in 'Time Out' magazine for TV presenters, so I went along with my sisters and we…

— Konnie Huq

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

— Aldis Hodge

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were…

— Tinsel Korey

I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections…

— Lily Collins

There are a lot of doors that still get shut, and there are a lot of walls to still breach. But, the…

— Jimmy Smits

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to…

— Heather Hemmens

Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

— Bob Bergen

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

— Mark Ruffalo

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

— Dayo Okeniyi

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

— Sophie Turner

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are…

— Henry Cavill

I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

— Jay London

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

— John Lennon

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

— Rita Moreno

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was…

— George Clooney

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

— Madonna Ciccone

I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do…

— Johnny Flynn

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an…

— Cassie Ventura

I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be…

— Zachary Quinto

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

— Neil Patrick Harris

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

— Rod Taylor

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play…

— Ray Charles