Auditions Quotes - Page 4

• I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

  Scott Speedman

  Mom, Years, Directors

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• The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Times Of Crisis, Stuff, Saws

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• People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

  Berenice Bejo

  People, Scripts, Great People

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teaching

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• I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

  Lucy Fry

  Drawing, Vampire, Remember

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• I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.

  Shailene Woodley

  Soccer, Growing Up, Fun

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

  Anna Kendrick

  Running, New York, Thinking

  "'Twilight' tuesday: Anna Kendrick says it was 'easy to get googly eyed' at Robert Pattinson". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Heart, Eye, Judgement

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• Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

  Sarah Shahi

  Cheerleading, Hollywood, Way

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• I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Husband, Home, School

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• He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Wrestling, Boys, Vienna

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• I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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• All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, America, Actors

  "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

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• I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

  Jenna Fischer

  Anniversary, Party, Struggle

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• At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.

  Nasim Pedrad

  Writing, Iran, Land

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• I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Blood, Trying, Hollywood

  "What's eating Leo?" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2004.

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• I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

  Casey Affleck

  Hate, Character, Thinking

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

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• The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked ‘Glee’ I was shooting ‘CSI Miami.’ I was playing this heroin addict…I’d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didn’t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.

  Naya Rivera

  Csi, Phones, Perfect

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• The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cute, Crush, Girl

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• I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.

  Jamie Dornan

  Years, Crap

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• I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

  Tim Meadows

  Wish, Roles, Film

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Cities, People

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• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros

  Rebecca Lobo

  Believe, Athlete, College

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• But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

  Candice Accola

  Dad, Mean, Long

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