Auditions Quotes · Page 8

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

— Paul McCartney

I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.

— Rupert Grint

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

— Jeremy Irvine

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

— Beau Mirchoff

I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'

— Debra Stephenson

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

— Christopher Parker

With pilot season, you have to jump through so many hoops, there are so many people in the room, you end up…

— Ryan Cartwright

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the…

— Xavier Samuel

The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities…

— Anna Chlumsky

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want…

— Busy Philipps

You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time…

— Eva Mendes

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions…

— Andrew Rannells

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was…

— Sanaa Lathan

If you wanna be the comic relief in a big-budget movie, go to L.A. because there are five auditions in a week…

— Wyatt Cenac

It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want…

— Philippe Falardeau

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when…

— Ben Stiller

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that…

— Sherri Shepherd

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition,…

— Wallace Shawn

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there…

— Chris Pine

My grandmother was a huge influence on me. She allowed me to be my flamboyant self as a kid. She babysat me;…

— Sarah Bolger

I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I…

— Giles Matthey

I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go…

— Henry Rollins

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

— Jonathan Groff

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the…

— Jacob Latimore

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail…

— Lena Headey

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

— Elia Kazan

I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

— Adam Driver

I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I…

— H. Jon Benjamin

I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

— Lauren Miller

As far as Pranutan is concerned, she never used the family name to get in. She bagged her first film after giving…

— Mohnish Bahl

I don't know how I ever built a career, really, because I have always been absolutely terrible at auditions.

— Denis Lawson

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

— Logan Lerman

I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

— Rhys Darby

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

— Rachel McAdams

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

— Dominic West

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

— Kevin Richardson

I have had to give auditions for every film I had done until 'Dedh Ishqiya.'

— Huma Qureshi