Auditions famous quotes

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 Pally

#People #Want #Auditions

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 Oduye

#Clueless #Firsts #Auditions

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
-- Al Pacino

#Way #Auditions #Sometimes

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.
-- Alex Meraz

#Auditions #Used #Thrown

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 Seimetz

#Ideas #Frustrated #Auditions

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.
-- Anil Kapoor

#Years #House #Auditions

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

#Weight #Casting #Auditions

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
-- Ariel Winter

#Giving #Done #Auditions

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

#School #Childhood #Auditions

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Song #Piano #Auditions

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

#Blessing #Parent #Auditions

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people
-- Berenice Bejo

#People #Scripts #Auditions

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

#Actors #Auditions #Really Happy

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

#Christmas #Actors #Auditions

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

#Gun #Tests #Auditions

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

#People #Roles #Auditions

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

#Trying #Auditions #Chance

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

#Thinking #Auditions #Serious

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.
-- Chris Colfer

#Auditions #Horrible

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

#Careers #Roles #Auditions

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

#Glee #Auditions

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?
-- David Lee

#Dream #Way #Auditions

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
-- Dawn French

#Auditions

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
-- Demi Lovato

#Home #Sitting #Auditions

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
-- Derek Luke

#Auditions #Sony #Denzel

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

#Years #Next #Auditions

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

#Agents #Goes On #Auditions

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 Coupe

#Wish #Levels #Auditions

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 Leonard

#Character #Auditions #Scene

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.
-- Emilie de Ravin

#Children #Auditions #Children Love

I have had so many bad auditions.
-- Ethan Hawke

#Auditions

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.
-- Evan Peters

#Goes On #Auditions

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
-- Eve Hewson

#Auditions #Study #Doing The Right Thing

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 Welker

#Auditions #Surprise #Enjoy

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

#Thinking #Answers #Auditions

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

#Musical #Auditions #Magazines

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
-- Helena Bonham Carter

#Sleep #Auditions #Euthanasia

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

#Opportunity #Firsts #Auditions

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
-- Isabel Lucas

#Done #Firsts #Auditions

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

#Vanishing #Firsts #Auditions

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.
-- Jake Abel

#Auditions #Sometimes #Process

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
-- James Frain

#Agents #Auditions #Tvs

I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.
-- Jamie Dornan

#Years #Auditions #Crap

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 McTeer

#Mirrors #Auditions #Succeed

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

#Thinking #Work Out #Auditions

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

#Dad #Auditions #Would Be

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

#Thinking #Actors #Auditions

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

#Three #Rehearsal #Auditions

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

#Baggage #Auditions #Directors

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
-- Joan Chen

#Auditions

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

#Kids #Auditions #Newspapers

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
-- Joel McHale

#Nails #Auditions #Talent

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
-- John Lennon

#Groups #Auditions #Saying Thank You

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

#Musical #Auditions #Stressful

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
-- Julie Benz

#Auditions #Nervous #Get Real

As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.
-- Julie McNiven

#Auditions #Episodes #Shows

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

#Winning #Agents #Auditions

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

#Nice #Sweat #Auditions

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

#Idols #Tv Shows #Auditions

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.
-- Kurt Fuller

#Believe #Panic #Auditions

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.
-- Lake Bell

#Insecure #Stopping #Auditions

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
-- Lance Reddick

#Auditions #Instinct #Notes

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

#Atlanta #Years #Auditions

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

#Feelings #Lovely #Auditions

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

#Auditions #Wanted

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 Mann

#Auditions #Dramatic #Comedic

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
-- Linda Lavin

#Thinking #Talking #Auditions

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

#School #Way #Auditions

I still have to audition for most things.
-- Loretta Devine

#Auditions #Stills

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

#Drawing #Vampire #Auditions

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 Davenport

#Reading #Dawn #Auditions

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.
-- Matthew Perry

#Auditions #Walks

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 Bialik

#Auditions #Looks #Catwalk

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

#People #Auditions #Cry

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.
-- Michael Ealy

#Auditions

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

#Two #Auditions #Sides

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

#School #Auditions #Facts

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

#Sick #Stories #Auditions

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

#Years #Auditions #Enough

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

#Mom #Firsts #Auditions

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.
-- Nicholas Lea

#Who I Am #People #Auditions

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.
-- Noureen DeWulf

#Book #Auditions #Three

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 Colman

#Jobs #Auditions #Lucky

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
-- Paula Abdul

#Simple #Auditions #Failing

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.
-- Paula Abdul

#Magazines #Auditions #Type

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
-- Paula Abdul

#Goes On #Auditions

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
-- Paula Abdul

#Want #Auditions

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

#Night #Clubs #Auditions

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 Sarsgaard

#Thinking #Auditions #Roles

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

#Heartbreaking #Looks #Auditions

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
-- Rafe Spall

#Auditions

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

#Information #Auditions #Pictures Of Yourself

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

#Cat #Records #Auditions

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.
-- Sarah Shahi

#Cheerleading #Way #Auditions

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 Sossamon

#Knights #Auditions #Tales

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

#People #Trying #Auditions

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
-- Shawn Ashmore

#Team #School #Auditions

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
-- Sophie Turner

#Jobs #Thinking #Auditions

Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.
-- Stephen Amell

#Auditions #Three #Actors

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

#Auditions #Environment #Excited