Auditions Quotes - Page 22

• I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.

  Kellan Lutz

  Nice, Sweat, Looks

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• I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Different, Lucky

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• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  Rachel McAdams

  Heartbreaking, Looks

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• I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

  John C. McGinley

  Guy, Dolls, Cards

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

  Lea Michele

  Wanted, My Friends, Knows

  "Lea Michele: Little Miss Big-Time". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

  Sienna Miller

  Clever, Thinking, Hair

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• But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

  Cory Monteith

  Glee, Managers, Fronts

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

  Robert De Niro

  Eight, Rejection, Balls

  "What I've Learned". Esquire, January 2003.

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• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Humble, Careers

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• If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

  Matthew Perry

  Walks, If I Could, Ifs

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Character, Down And

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• I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

  Paula Poundstone

  Night, Connections, Clubs

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• I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

  Willard Scott

  Pilots, Disaster, Lost

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• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  Ian Hart

  Missing You, Secret, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went in for an audition [for As Good As It Gets], but the audition was with James L. Brooks. I was the first girl in that morning, and there was a whole waiting room of girls waiting to read for it. So I did my audition, and he asked me to step outside. So I stepped outside, and when he asked me to come back in, he looked at me, and he said, "Well, I'm very excited to work with you on set." And I was, like, "What?" I thought it was a Hollywood blow-off.

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Morning, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't tell anybody [had got a role at As Good As It Gets], because I was just going, "Well, that was the strangest audition..." And I just thought, "There's no way he gave me the job on the spot when there was a room full of other girls waiting to audition for it." But then I didn't hear anything for a couple of days, so I finally called my agents, and they're, like, "Oh, yeah, congratulations! We know Jim [L.Brooks] told you in the room that you got it."

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

  Berenice Marlohe

  Names, Paris, Casting

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• I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

  Olivia Colman

  Jobs, Lucky, Stills

  "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  Olivia Colman

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

  Didi Conn

  Summer, Teacher, Jobs

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• I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

  Joan Chen

  "Joan Chen — Saving Face". Interview, grouchoreviews.com. March 11, 2005.

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• When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

  John Corbett

  Thinking, Six, Three

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• The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

  Kieran Culkin

  Children, School, Kids

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