Auditions Quotes - Page 22

• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Humble, Careers

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• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  Rachel McAdams

  Heartbreaking, Looks

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• I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

  John C. McGinley

  Guy, Dolls, Cards

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• I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

  Lea Michele

  Wanted, My Friends, Knows

  "Lea Michele: Little Miss Big-Time". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

  Sienna Miller

  Clever, Thinking, Hair

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• I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

  Robert De Niro

  Eight, Rejection, Balls

  "What I've Learned". Esquire, January 2003.

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• If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

  Matthew Perry

  Walks, If I Could, Ifs

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Character, Down And

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• I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

  Paula Poundstone

  Night, Connections, Clubs

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• I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Different, Lucky

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• I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.

  Kellan Lutz

  Nice, Sweat, Looks

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• My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Attitude, Eight

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

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• After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

  Demi Lovato

  Home, Sitting, Wonder

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• My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.

  Elmore Leonard

  Character, Scene, Given

  "Elmore Leonard's Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.

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• I didn't tell anybody [had got a role at As Good As It Gets], because I was just going, "Well, that was the strangest audition..." And I just thought, "There's no way he gave me the job on the spot when there was a room full of other girls waiting to audition for it." But then I didn't hear anything for a couple of days, so I finally called my agents, and they're, like, "Oh, yeah, congratulations! We know Jim [L.Brooks] told you in the room that you got it."

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went in for an audition [for As Good As It Gets], but the audition was with James L. Brooks. I was the first girl in that morning, and there was a whole waiting room of girls waiting to read for it. So I did my audition, and he asked me to step outside. So I stepped outside, and when he asked me to come back in, he looked at me, and he said, "Well, I'm very excited to work with you on set." And I was, like, "What?" I thought it was a Hollywood blow-off.

  Julie Benz

  Girl, Morning, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Want, Littles

  "Domhnall Gleeson: 'Handsome is not really where I'm at'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  Adam Pally

  People, Want, Ifs

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

  Khandi Alexander

  Heart, Order, Careers

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• Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

  Wil Wheaton

  Differences, Parent, Littles

  "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.

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• I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

  Olivia Colman

  Jobs, Lucky, Stills

  "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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• My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Cute, Mom, Voice

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• I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Kids, Newspapers, Rosie

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