Auditions Quotes

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

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.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

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

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

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

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.

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.

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

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.

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.

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.

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.

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

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

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

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

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

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

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

I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

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.

Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

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.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

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.

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?" .

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

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

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

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.

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'.

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

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.