Auditions Quotes - Page 17

• You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

  Eva Mendes

  Fun, Play, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.

  Jason Reitman

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?

  Ryan Reynolds

  Character, Hollywood, Matter

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

  Kevin Nealon

  Beer, Light, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Decision, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Reagan Gomez-Preston

  Waiting, Able, My Own

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

  Clark Gregg

  Football, Drama, Player

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• When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

  Celina Jade

  Character, Dc Comics, Firsts

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• I've always wanted to be a voice actor. Well I think at first I wanted to be a singer. Then in middle school I auditioned for a musical and I only really cared because I wanted to sing in it. I had to act as well as part of the audition and that was the first time I ever really acted, and I was like 'Oh hey, this is fun, I like doing this.'

  Ashly Burch

  Fun, School, Thinking

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• I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me. I think what goes into my work is everything beforehand that I do with my dad. He teaches me acting, and I think maybe without him it would be pretty hard. I started acting for fun, really, because my dad's an actor and my sister's an actor, so I started doing it and it was normal. But it got places really fast, and I started doing feature film auditions and stuff.

  Kodi Smit-McPhee

  Dad, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Nice, Differences, Goes On

  "EMMYS Q&A: Anna Chlumsky Of ‘Veep’ On Playing It Straight". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.

  Corey Stoll

  Morning, Jobs, Eye

  Source: deadline.com

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• I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

  Grace Jones

  Song, Strong, Men

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• I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

  Naomi Grossman

  Feet, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Memories, Thinking, Skills

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

  Eve Hewson

  Roles, Firsts, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.

  Tanc Sade

  Thinking, Nervous, Palms

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.

  Madhur Mittal

  Sometimes, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

  Jared Harris

  Land, Ratios, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

  Krysten Ritter

  Opportunity, Directors, Casting

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.

  Krysten Ritter

  Thinking, Ifs

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

  Hank Azaria

  Energy, Pressure, Felt

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Directors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Zoe Kazan

  Quality, Too Much, Disappointed

  Source: collider.com

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