Auditions Quotes - Page 19

• The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.

  Malin Akerman

  Choices, Roles, Able

  "Malin Akerman Exclusive Interview HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

  Nina Dobrev

  Mom, Cities, Half

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• Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

  Dana Gould

  Home, Rope, Pilots

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• Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  New York, Cities, America

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

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• I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.

  Madeline Zima

  Fighting, Way, My Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.

  Madeline Zima

  Falling In Love, Character, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Kay Panabaker

  Character, Scripts, Causes

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• 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.

  Hoon Lee

  Chance, Helpful, Be Confident

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• For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."

  Robert Knepper

  Dog, Beach, Successful

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.

  Nate Berkus

  Brother, Giving, Important

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• Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.

  James Maslow

  Two, Doors, Years

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• I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Important, Saying Thank You, Good Experiences

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

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• I did loads of auditions and I didn't get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I'm still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don't feel like I've done that much.

  Colin Farrell

  People, Enjoy Life, Done

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• The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

  Scott Bakula

  Home, Reality, Shoes

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• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

  Elle Fanning

  Butterfly, People, Scary

  "Elle Fanning on LOW DOWN, Jazz Music, Kissing Peter Dinklage, Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT, TRUMBO, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 24, 2014.

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• I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Numbers, Dancing

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• My sisters are my best friends and my most staunch supporters. They're always there to help me through every audition, through interviews and through everything. They are the best things in my life, and I would be completely lost without them.

  Madeline Zima

  My Best Friend, Would Be, Interviews

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• It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that they have time to exchange ideas. I'm there. It's not someone else who does the audition, but I don't want to audition a thousand children.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Children, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.

  Michael Dorn

  Smart, Character, Past

  "Interview: Michael Dorn On His History With TNG & DS9, Nemesis, the 2009 Star Trek & more". Interview with Henning Koonert, trekmovie.com. December 3, 2010.

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• We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

  Jenji Kohan

  Character, People, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’

  Naomi Watts

  Believe, Cutting, People

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• It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

  Bill Nighy

  Christmas, Actors, Wonderful

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• A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Roles, Half, Months

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• For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

  Liam Neeson

  Successful, Games, Names

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