Auditions Quotes - Page 14

• Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

  Andrew Rannells

  Moving, Thinking, Baking

  "Andrew Rannells ‘Book Of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: a player like no other to grace the Premier League" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2016.

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• I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."

  Malin Akerman

  Writing, Italian, Years

  "Malin Akerman Talks Rock of Ages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

  Suzanne Shaw

  School, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.

  Clay Aiken

  Perseverance, Cutting, Thinking

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• For me when I go in and audition for things, I just let them go as soon as I leave. I can 't take them home with me. That's something that my mom actually taught my sister and me from the time we were kids.

  Haylie Duff

  Mom, Home, Kids

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

  Bernie Marsden

  Cat, Skinny, Band

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• I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

  Rhys Darby

  X Files, Files

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was 18 years old when I did the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], so I was a freshman at NYU, and it was one of my first professional auditions in New York City. And I somehow booked the job. I have no idea how.

  Julie Benz

  Jobs, New York, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Kevin Hart

  Reading, Hands, Directors

  "One on one", lafocusnewspaper.com. March 3, 2014.

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• When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.

  Toby Lightman

  Senior, Teacher, Parent

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• I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to do when I grew up. I knew the most fun I'd had was doing the play in her class, so when I told her that, she began to take me to local theater auditions and became my mentor and friend, and to this day continues to be.

  Heather Hemmens

  Teacher, Fun, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.

  Guy Maddin

  Tired, Editing, Filled Out

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I did all the usual things. I think I did everything that everybody else does. I did auditions. I went to see people. I went to see the right people in some instances, the wrong people in others. The wrong time in others. The right time in others. Nothing seemed to make any difference. I quit 5 times! I always went back to try again when circumstances came around to it.

  Frankie Laine

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.

  Andy Bell

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Ties, Risk

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway (p. 119), 1981.

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• There are challenges in life, and it was a great challenge to have [became a member of Judas Preist]. The situation I was getting into, I knew what it stood for to me and to millions of people around the world. You get an opportunity like that, a chance to audition, you've got to do it. It worked out.

  Richie Faulkner

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.

  Keith Carradine

  Kings, Couple, Years

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I started acting when I moved to California when I was nineteen. I started auditioning. I was waiting on my manager at the time. I was waiting on her table, and she sent me on an audition. From there, I just kept auditioning and, luckily, got parts.

  Laura Ramsey

  California, Waiting, Acting

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• Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I'm playing the waiting game after an audition.

  Allen Evangelista

  Stress, Yoga, Games

  "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.

  Reginald Hudlin

  Moving, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. So once it got to there and I also knew more about the business and I thought, "I can't do this anymore."

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, Wonderful, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

  Ed O'Neill

  Book, Escaping, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Couple, Opportunity, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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