Audition Quote by Gary Sinise

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during…

— Gabriel Mann

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

— Beth Henley

I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to…

— Britta Phillips

I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and I wanted…

— Cheyenne Kimball

I grew up doing theater. I came to New York and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. I was this serious young…

— Amanda Bearse

I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful…

— Kurt Fuller

In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher…

— Forest Whitaker

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me…

— David Harewood

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house…

— Bernie Mac

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my…

— Chris Wood

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club…

— Jenn Proske

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

— Vicki Lawrence