Auditions Quotes

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

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

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

I have had so many bad auditions.

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

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

I first came to LA auditioning during pilot season. I didn't really know anyone. The only people I'd meet were the girls I was up against at auditions. It wasn't the friendliest bunch.

If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

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

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?

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.

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

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

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

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

I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.

As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.

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.

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

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.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

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

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

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.

I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

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

I still have to audition for most things.