Auditions Quotes - Page 14

• I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."

  Malin Akerman

  Writing, Italian, Years

  "Malin Akerman Talks Rock of Ages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• I remember at the time, there were all these teen movies being made. It was this resurgence of John Hughes-esque teen comedies. I was sent a lot of them to audition for, and a lot of them at the time didn't really impress me. I remember I was sent one called East Grand Rapids High, which ended up becoming American Pie, and I didn't like it. Although I think I did audition for it.

  David Krumholtz

  Thinking, Pie, East

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As far as the fashion of mod 60's goes...I've always loved it. I bought a mod dress while still in college for an audition I had for Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie. It may have been a little too mod for the American 60's, but I think it worked just fine. I ended up wearing it a lot and it became one of my favorite pieces.

  Erica Schroeder

  Fashion, College, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I went through the natural process that most actors go through. I brought myself out here, had an audition on a Wednesday; then had a call-back on Thursday, had a call-back on Friday and I had it by Friday afternoon.

  Sean Mahon

  Friday, Actors, Afternoon

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Interesting, Blonde

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• I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."

  Susan Sarandon

  Senior, Fall, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started acting when I moved to California when I was nineteen. I started auditioning. I was waiting on my manager at the time. I was waiting on her table, and she sent me on an audition. From there, I just kept auditioning and, luckily, got parts.

  Laura Ramsey

  California, Waiting, Acting

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• I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.

  Keith Carradine

  Kings, Couple, Years

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2016.

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• When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.

  Andy Bell

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

  Shaun Sipos

  Theatre, Actors, Film

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• 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.

  Kim Dickens

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

  Kevin Hart

  Reading, Hands, Directors

  "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.

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• There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.

  Reginald Hudlin

  Moving, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

  Ed O'Neill

  Book, Escaping, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I'm playing the waiting game after an audition.

  Allen Evangelista

  Stress, Yoga, Games

  "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. So once it got to there and I also knew more about the business and I thought, "I can't do this anymore."

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Wonderful, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, 'Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared, I have nothing, I have no props.' And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, 'Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn't need props.' And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.

  Bill Hader

  Guy, Needs, Wigs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Home, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better.

  Phil Morris

  Stars, Jobs, Father

  Source: 411mania.com

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

  Bob Bergen

  Jobs, Pigs, Firsts

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

  Julie Halston

  Clothes, Advice, Needs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  Britta Phillips

  Girl, Husband, Trying

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.

  Regina King

  Years

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said everyone is sticking to the script. I said to myself that they are either going to love me or hate me. I was crossing out lines and throwing in my own lines. I went into the room and started doing things. They were like, "This boy is nuts! We should keep him." That's how it all came about.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Hate, Boys, Nuts

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.

  Diana Ross

  Stars, Couple, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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