Auditions Quotes - Page 8

• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Ideas, America, Actors

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  Lance Reddick

  Instinct, Notes, Tricky

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

  Ving Rhames

  Football, Teacher, Art

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

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• My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

  Danny Strong

  Reading, Tv Shows, Casting

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• I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Vacation, Wind, Trying

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• By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Feet, Looks, Actors

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• I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Thinking, Actors, Percent

  "FUTURES | ‘War Horse’ Breakout Jeremy Irvine" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 22, 2011.

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• I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Team, Track, Guy

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• You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, Disappointment, Thinking

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• You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

  Joel McHale

  Nails, Talent

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

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• It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

  Kelly Macdonald

  Girl, Play, Comforting

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

  Anil Kapoor

  Years, House, Film

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Years, Play, Acting

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• If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Thinking, Roles, Chance

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

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Goal, Feelings, Might

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

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

  Rod Taylor

  Actors, Radio, Sydney

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• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  Dominic West

  Years, Next, Tvs

  "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

  Julie Delpy

  Acting, Looks, Botox

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• After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

  Micky Dolenz

  School, Facts, Study

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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  Wallace Shawn

  Reality, Giving, Advice

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  "My Journey Through The Games" by Jacqueline Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Mom, Fall, Years

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• Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

  Michael Ealy

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