Auditions Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in it, and never really had the guts to do it professionally. But one summer, a friend of mine was with an extras agency and asked me if I wanted to be an extra with him in a movie, and I was, like, "Sure." At lunch, the writer came up to me and asked me to audition for a role. I got it, and it sort of snowballed from there.

  Italia Ricci

  Summer, College, Agency

  "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

  Jared Harris

  Land, Ratios, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.

  Carrie Coon

  Mom, Kids, Eight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.

  Madhur Mittal

  Sometimes, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

  Zoe Kazan

  Quality, Too Much, Disappointed

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

  Krysten Ritter

  Opportunity, Directors, Casting

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• 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.

  Krysten Ritter

  Thinking, Ifs

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• 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.

  Hank Azaria

  Energy, Pressure, Felt

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

  Eve Hewson

  Roles, Firsts, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Memories, Thinking, Skills

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

  Bailee Madison

  Dream, Giving Up, Roles

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• I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.

  Xavier Samuel

  Tape, Hearing, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

  Chika Anadu

  Talent, New Talent

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston looks back at Walter White’s greatest hits, part 2". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 13, 2012.

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• The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Struggle, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

  Jason Isaacs

  Children, Book, Sitting

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

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• I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Thinking, People, Upset

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• Whenever I audition for something, if I get excited about the project I'm totally committed to it from that point on. But it can also be a long process, so when I eventually get given the part it's then that I realise that I've actually got to do it and here comes the work!

  Matthew Kane

  Long, Excited, Projects

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  Virginia Madsen

  New York, Inspiration, Illinois

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

  Eli Roth

  Venice, Want, Casting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

  Adam Baldwin

  Jobs, Home, Wife

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

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• For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Directors, Different, Casting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.

  Jason Reitman

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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