quotes about Auditions
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
-- Adam PallySource : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
-- Adepero OduyeSource : "Interview with Adepero Oduye star of Pariah". Women and Hollywood Interview, www.womenandhollywood.com. Deccember 26, 2011.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
-- Al PacinoSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.
-- Alex Meraz -
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I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.
-- Amy SeimetzSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.
-- Anil Kapoor -
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
-- Archie Panjabi -
I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
-- Ariel WinterSource : "Ariel Winter is Proud to Play Smart Characters". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. March 22, 2012.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
-- Beau Mirchoff -
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
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.
-- Ben Stiller -
People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people
-- Berenice BejoSource : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 6, 2012.
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If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.
-- Bill Nighy -
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
-- Bill Nighy -
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
-- Brady Corbet -
I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.
-- Britt Robertson -
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I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.
-- Callum Keith Rennie -
I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .
-- Carla Gugino -
I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.
-- Chris Colfer -
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
-- Claire Danes -
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But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
-- Cory Monteith -
That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?
-- David LeeSource : Source: www.gq.com
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I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
-- Dawn French -
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
-- Demi Lovato -
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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
-- Derek LukeSource : "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.
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If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
-- Dominic WestSource : "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.
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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
-- Eliza CoupeSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
-- Elmore LeonardSource : "Elmore Leonard's Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.
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I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.
-- Emilie de RavinSource : "The Verge Q+A: Emilie de Ravin Talks About the "Lost" Finale". Interview with Raha Naddaf, www.gq.com. June 9, 2010.
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If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.
-- Evan PetersSource : "Evan Peters Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Establishing His Character this Season and Working with Jessica Lange and James Cromwell". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2012.
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There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
-- Eve Hewson -
One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
-- Frank WelkerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
-- George Clooney -
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
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Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
-- Hugh Jackman -
My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
-- Isabel LucasSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
-- Jacob Latimore -
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The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.
-- Jake AbelSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
-- James FrainSource : "James Frain Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.
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I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.
-- Jamie Dornan -
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
-- Janet McTeerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
-- Jared Harris -
A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.
-- Jason Ritter -
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
-- Jeremy IrvineSource : "FUTURES | ‘War Horse’ Breakout Jeremy Irvine" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 22, 2011.
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Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
-- Jerry Hall -
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I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
-- Jessica Chastain -
I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
-- Joan Chen -
I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.
-- Joanna Noelle Levesque -
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
-- Joel McHaleSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
-- John Lennon -
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
-- Jonathan Groff -
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
-- Julie Benz -
As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.
-- Julie McNiven -
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After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.
-- Kel Mitchell -
I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.
-- Kellan Lutz -
I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.
-- Kelly Clarkson -
I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.
-- Kurt FullerSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.
-- Lake Bell -
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
-- Lance ReddickSource : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.
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I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.
-- Lauren Cohan -
I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.
-- Lauren Miller -
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I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
-- Lea Michele -
When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.
-- Leslie MannSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
-- Linda Lavin -
When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!
-- Logan Lerman -
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I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.
-- Lucy Fry -
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for From Dusk Till Dawn, but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
-- Madison DavenportSource : "Madison Davenport Talks FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES, Working with Robert Rodriguez, Delving into the Supernatural, the Titty Twister Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2014.
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If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.
-- Matthew Perry -
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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.
-- Mayim BialikSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.
-- Melanie Lynskey -
Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.
-- Michael Ealy -
I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.
-- Michelle Rodriguez -
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After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
-- Micky Dolenz -
I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.
-- Mircea Monroe -
I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing.
-- Naomi Watts -
When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
-- Natasha Calis -
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Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.
-- Nicholas Lea -
And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.
-- Noureen DeWulfSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
-- Olivia ColmanSource : "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.
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When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
-- Paula AbdulSource : Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy (2002). “Keane: The Autobiography”
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Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.
-- Paula Abdul -
The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
-- Paula Abdul -
Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
-- Paula Abdul -
I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.
-- Paula Poundstone -
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If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
-- Peter SarsgaardSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
-- Rachel McAdams -
Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
-- Rafe SpallSource : "One Day star Rafe Spall on Anne Hathaway, Ridley Scott and dad Tim". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.
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I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.
-- Rupert Grint -
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
-- Sarah Brightman -
Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.
-- Sarah Shahi -
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.
-- Shannyn SossamonSource : "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon " by Smitri Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.
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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.
-- Sharni Vinson -
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Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
-- Shawn AshmoreSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
-- Sophie Turner -
Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.
-- Stephen Amell -
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
-- Tatiana Maslany -