Auditions Quotes - Page 9

• Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Numbers, Lucky, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jobs, Age, Television

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Mean, Grandmother, People

  "Zack Galifianakis On Set Interview - THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2009.

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• There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

  Eve Hewson

  Study, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

  Jack Huston

  Stuff, Cameras, Nails

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• Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.

  Lena Headey

  Brother, Jobs, Directors

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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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• My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

  Isabel Lucas

  Done, Firsts, Worst

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

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• When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Art, School, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

  Katie Leclerc

  Ipads, Debt, Firsts

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• When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

  Logan Lerman

  School, Way, Five

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• I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.

  Matt Letscher

  School, Play, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

  Zosia Mamet

  Kids, Mad, Watches

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

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• Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

  Dean Norris

  New York, Cities, Stuff

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

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Song, Piano, Has Beens

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• I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Theatre, Watches

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

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• The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Games, Roles, Firsts

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