Auditions Quotes - Page 10

• I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Needs, Roles, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

  Dylan O'Brien

  School, College, Class

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Disappointment, Dad, Waiting

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  Julia Ormond

  Drama, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 Peters

  Goes On, Ifs

  "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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• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dad, Thinking, Video

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• I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

  Derek Luke

  Sony, Denzel

  "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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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 Oduye

  Clueless, Firsts, Resumes

  "Interview with Adepero Oduye star of Pariah". Women and Hollywood Interview, www.womenandhollywood.com. Deccember 26, 2011.

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• I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

  Missi Pyle

  Jobs, Crazy, Long

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• People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

  Missi Pyle

  Thinking, People, Casting

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Son, Waiting, Actors

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• I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

  Teresa Palmer

  Decision, Directors, Film

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• 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.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Ideas, America, Actors

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

  Lance Reddick

  Instinct, Notes, Tricky

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

  Ving Rhames

  Football, Teacher, Art

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

  Danny Strong

  Reading, Tv Shows, Casting

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• Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Practice

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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 Sarsgaard

  Thinking, Roles, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• 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, Projects, Tales

  "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon " by Smitri Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.

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• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Goal, Feelings, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

  Rod Taylor

  Actors, Radio, Sydney

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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 West

  Years, Next, Tvs

  "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  Mae Whitman

  Cute, Mom, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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