Auditions Quotes

• The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Giving Up, Character, Acting

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• Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Weed, Moving, Opportunity

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• Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

  Erica Schroeder

  Fun, Thinking, Chance

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

  Robert De Niro

  Gamble, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

  Hilary Swank

  Hate, Mean, Opportunity

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• Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

  Nina Arianda

  Character, Insecure, Long

  "Nina Arianda: ‘Venus In Fur’ Star On Her Broadway Role And Tony Nominations". Interview with Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Answers, Problem

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• If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Upset, Useless

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.

  Kellan Lutz

  Jobs, Going Out, Stuff

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

  Robert De Niro

  People, Actors, May

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.

  Giles Matthey

  Ideas, Saws, Typical

  Source: collider.com

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• When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.

  Madeline Zima

  Feelings, Achieve, Beats

  Source: collider.com

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• The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

  Paula Abdul

  Goes On

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• When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

  Paula Abdul

  Simple, Failing, Meetings

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• Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

  Paula Abdul

  Want, Fronts

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• I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

  Hugh Jackman

  Opportunity, Firsts, Stranger

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 29, 2013

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• When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Writing, Guy, Greek

  Source: collider.com

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• I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.

  Lily Collins

  Passion, Choices, Rejection

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• I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

  Demi Moore

  Teacher, Acting, Blonde

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Olivia Colman

  Trying, Directors, Needs

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• In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

  Bob Fosse

  Long, World, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find the worst audition is the no audition.

  Emma Stone

  Worst

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, People, Looks

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• Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Religious, Thinking, Inspire

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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  Ian Ziering

  Rejection, Let It Go, Hollywood

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