Auditions Quotes - Page 23

• I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

  Lake Bell

  Insecure, Stopping, Bathroom

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

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• As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Want, Littles

  "Domhnall Gleeson: 'Handsome is not really where I'm at'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  Adam Pally

  People, Want, Ifs

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

  Khandi Alexander

  Heart, Order, Careers

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• Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

  Wil Wheaton

  Differences, Parent, Littles

  "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.

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• My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Cute, Mom, Voice

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• I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Kids, Newspapers, Rosie

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• My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Education, Nice, Play

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• I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Roles, Shooting

  "'Hunger Games'star Willow Shields takes us behind the scenes of 'The Haunting Hour'". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

  Britt Robertson

  People, Roles, Ifs

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• Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.

  Cheri Oteri

  Sleep, Eye, Italian

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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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• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Agents, Firsts

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• I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

  Al Pacino

  Disappointment, Opportunity, Thinking

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Thinking, Tape, Nerves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Rooms

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• I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

  Jamie Chung

  Stars, Reality, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

  Dakota Fanning

  Real, Character, Names

  Interview with Kathy Cano-Murillo, www.craftychica.com. January 24, 2002.

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• I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

  Robert Englund

  People, Rejection, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.

  Lauren Cohan

  Atlanta, Years, Kind

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