Auditions Quotes - Page 20

• I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

  Kyle Chandler

  Kings, Successful, Thinking

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

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• However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

  Claire Danes

  Careers, Roles, Used

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Sleep, Euthanasia, Knows

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• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Children, Parent

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• I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.

  Mos Def

  Nice, Careers, Mind

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Cat, Records, Pops

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• Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

  Mayim Bialik

  Looks, Should, Catwalk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Years, Long, Done

  "Harry Connick Jr. On Dolphins, New Orleans And His Marriage Secret". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

  Simon Cowell

  Testing, Audience, Fronts

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• It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

  Drew Carey

  Smart, Luck, Asking

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• I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

  Eliza Dushku

  Safety Pins, Jeans, Clerks

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• I have had so many bad auditions.

  Ethan Hawke

  "A-list actors relive shameful audition moments". www.cnn.com. August 31, 2009.

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

  Eva Green

  Interesting, Want, Casinos

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

  Kate Hudson

  Play, Parent, Important

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• Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Team, School, Preparing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

  Busy Philipps

  Mom, Children, Careers

  "COUGAR TOWN’s Busy Philipps on being a troublemaker". Interview with Jim Halterman, jimhalterman.com. September 29, 2009.

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• And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

  Noureen DeWulf

  Book, Three, Agents

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

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• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  Laura Dern

  Responsibility, Understanding, Actors

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

  Dawn French

  Havens

  "Dawn French: 'I decided I'd pretend to be someone very confident'". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.

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• I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Movie, Musical, Actors

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• The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

  Christina Aguilera

  Nerves, Blind, Process

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• One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Actors, Young, Fathom

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• I was sitting on top of people and it was just really uncomfortable. There was no place to move. And, I don't like auditioning, anyways. With auditions, you can get so nervous, or other things get into your head and throw you off, and it doesn't really reflect what you can do, as an actor. The whole thing was just really nerve-wracking, but I ended up getting it.

  Tinsel Korey

  Moving, People, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

  Megan Lee

  Mom, Passion, Acting

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". GLITTER interview, glittermagrocks.com.

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