Auditions Quotes - Page 23

• My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Education, Nice, Play

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• I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Roles, Shooting

  "'Hunger Games'star Willow Shields takes us behind the scenes of 'The Haunting Hour'". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

  Britt Robertson

  People, Roles, Ifs

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• Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.

  Cheri Oteri

  Sleep, Eye, Italian

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• [Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts High School with. My audition piece was selections from Rocky. We were not sophisticated. But we had some spirit about it. We enjoyed it, and it was a way out.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Home, School

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• I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

  Lake Bell

  Insecure, Stopping, Bathroom

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

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• Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

  Jonathan Groff

  Musical, Stressful, Worst

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Dark, Hair, Skins

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

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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  Olivia Colman

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

  Julianna Margulies

  School, Sleep, Law

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• I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

  Berenice Marlohe

  Names, Paris, Casting

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• When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

  Leslie Mann

  Dramatic, Comedic, Wells

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

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• My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

  Didi Conn

  Summer, Teacher, Jobs

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• I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

  Joan Chen

  "Joan Chen — Saving Face". Interview, grouchoreviews.com. March 11, 2005.

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• When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

  John Corbett

  Thinking, Six, Three

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• The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

  Kieran Culkin

  Children, School, Kids

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• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Agents, Firsts

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• I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

  Al Pacino

  Disappointment, Opportunity, Thinking

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Years, People, Lazy

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• Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Book, People, Rooms

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

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• I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

  Eliza Coupe

  Wish, Levels

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

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• Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

  Billy Campbell

  Thinking, Cities, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, "This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role." I pretend I'm the producer and I think, "If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?," and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.

  Billy Campbell

  Believe, Thinking, Roles

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

  Chris Colfer

  Horrible

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