Advice Quote by Chuck Klosterman

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

— Kay Cannon

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten…

— Johnny Depp

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got…

— Wentworth Miller

Once, I was on unemployment for five months. I was afraid to go out and audition, so I holed up and read everything I…

— Joe Don Baker

I had been hired and fired so many times and been so very blessed and lucky.

— Goldust

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition…

— Lin Shaye

John Kricfalusi wanted me to quit the job when he got fired in 1992. But the problem there is that I wasn't his partner.…

— Billy West

If I had any advice to give people, it would be to relax; never treat an audition like an emergency. There will be plenty…

— Gregg Sulkin

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department…

— Nicki Chapman

I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label…

— Lana Del Rey

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned…

— Otis Blackwell