Auditions Quotes - Page 12

• I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

  Michael Caine

  Idols, Wife, Watches

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, New York, Children

  "Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl Talk THE NUT JOB, Creating the Voices for Their Characters, Collaborating with the Director and Animators, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 16, 2014.

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• 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, Serious, Moments

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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

  Nicholas Lea

  Who I Am, People, Walks

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

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• Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

  Ben Stiller

  Years, Ideas, Fake

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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• The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Crazy, Men, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Kids, Boston

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Years, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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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

  Jobs, Thinking, Walks

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• This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

  Paul McCartney

  Firsts, First Time

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• I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.

  Adina Porter

  Kids, Balance, Trying

  "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

  Jason Gann

  Girl, Eye, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Couple, Shooting, Pilots

  "Daniela Bobadilla Talks ANGER MANAGEMENT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 20, 2012.

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• As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

  Mark Duplass

  Directors, Looks, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

  Ed Speleers

  Brain, Fit, Working It

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It just so happens that when I was, like, 19 or 20, I got a couple of auditions and got a couple parts with good people. Of the thousands of auditions where you don't get the part, I've done a couple of jobs where you do it and you're like, "Okay, this is good."

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, Couple, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since I had a bunch of free time and then I was like, 'You know what? I want to give this a shot, move back to L.A., and audition.' The first show I booked was a show called Threshold with Carla Gugino and it was obviously a terrifying experience and I felt out of my comfort zone, but it made me want to keep going because it was fun.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Fun, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.

  Erin Willett

  Artist, Validation, Scary

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• For me it's a new experience every single time, because - The dance community has a great strength in synergizing immediately. So we recognize that opposed to being competition, which we are in the audition process, once we're on the job is about cohesion, it's about striving to highlight each individual in their own element, while also creating something that is visually tantalizing to the audience. While the ingredients of each movie has been different, the recipe for success is the same, which is to click immediately and make the best possible movie.

  Alyson Stoner

  Jobs, New Experiences, Creating

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

  Derek Sivers

  Successful, Years, Tv Shows

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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

  David Lee

  Dream, Way, Plans

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Hard Work, Rejection, Needs

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

  Stephen Amell

  Three, Actors, Three Words

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• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

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