Auditions Quotes

1. "I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly."
Author: Adam Pally

2. "I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'."
Author: Anna Chancellor

3. "I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions."
Author: Archie Panjabi

4. "It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous."
Author: Ben Stiller

5. "I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!"
Author: Berenice Marlohe

6. "Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous."
Author: Billy Campbell

7. "As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those."
Author: Bradley James

8. "I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college."
Author: Brendan Dooling

9. "Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed."
Author: Busy Philipps

10. "New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent."
Author: Catherine Mary Stewart

11. "I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it."
Author: Charlie Tahan

12. "I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything."
Author: Chris Colfer

13. "I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions."
Author: Christopher Parker

14. "The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows."
Author: Dan Castellaneta

15. "I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them."
Author: Dax Shepard

16. "Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping."
Author: Diane Paulus

17. "If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything."
Author: Eddie Redmayne

18. "My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions."
Author: Elizabeth Perkins

19. "I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions."
Author: Emilie De Ravin

20. "I have had so many bad auditions."
Author: Ethan Hawke

21. "I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself."
Author: Jamie Chung

22. "You have to know that 99% of auditions you're not going to get."
Author: Janel Moloney

23. "Her voice was trained, supple as leather, precise as a knife thrower's blade. Singing or talking, it had the same graceful quality, and an accent I thought at first was English, but then realized was the old-fashioned American of a thirties movie, a person who could get away with saying 'grand.' Too classic, they told her when she went out on auditions. It didn't mean old. It meant too beautiful for the times, when anything that lasted longer than six months was considered passe. I loved to listen to her sing, or tell me stories about her childhood in suburban Connecticut, it sounded like heaven."
Author: Janet Fitch

24. "I want to start a band called "Friday Have Been Cancelled" and then hold open auditions every Friday. The sign will read, "Auditions For Friday Have Been Cancelled." I sure hope nobody shows up because I certainly won't be there."
Author: Jarod Kintz

25. "I can record auditions from my office in my home."
Author: Jason Marsden

26. "You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate."
Author: Jenifer Lewis

27. "I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15."
Author: John Gallagher Jr.

28. "I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox."
Author: Julie Delpy

29. "In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
Author: Katie Holmes

30. "The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions."
Author: Katie Leclerc

31. "After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some."
Author: Kel Mitchell

32. "I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities."
Author: Kevin Richardson

33. "I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice."
Author: Lily Collins

34. "Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."
Author: Linda Lavin

35. "When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!"
Author: Logan Lerman

36. "Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk."
Author: Mayim Bialik

37. "You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome."
Author: Michael B. Jordan

38. "They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time."
Author: Micky Dolenz

39. "I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work."
Author: Noureen DeWulf

40. "If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far."
Author: Olivia Colman

41. "I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down."
Author: Oona Chaplin

42. "When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true."
Author: Paula Abdul

43. "I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in."
Author: Rachel McAdams

44. "I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were."
Author: Robert Englund

45. "You didn't call me last night.""Was I supposed to?"He looked down. "Just figured now that you had my number...Kept my phone on all night, just in case." He laughed. "I started to worry that it didn't work. Actually went out to a pay phone to test it.""You could have called me. That way you left me after lunch on Saturday, I figured..." I ended there and shrugged, not wanting to be mad at him or get into any kind of argument. "Anyway, after auditions I went to the gym with Steph, and I'm so behind in my homework it's not even funny." Of course I'd punched in his number about eighteen times without actually ever calling him. I wasn't sure what I'd say, and worried about how I'd feel if he didn't answer."I shouldn't have left like that on Saturday.""Yeah, well." I waved my hands. "Don't worry about it. I have to finish getting ready. There's cereal and stuff...just make yourself at home."
Author: Sara Zarr

46. "Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it."
Author: Sela Ward

47. "It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors."
Author: Shannyn Sossamon

48. "I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be."
Author: Sharni Vinson

49. "Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person."
Author: Tatiana Maslany

50. "Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference."
Author: Wil Wheaton

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