Auditions Quotes - Page 24

• It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

  Julie Benz

  Nervous, Get Real

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• I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

  Jessica Chastain

  Directors, Done, Nine

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• I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Stars, Party, Games

  "Fenntastic", by Jill Daniel, Orange Coast (USA), January 1999.

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• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Thinking, Tape, Nerves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Rooms

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• I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

  Jamie Chung

  Stars, Reality, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

  Dakota Fanning

  Real, Character, Names

  Interview with Kathy Cano-Murillo, www.craftychica.com. January 24, 2002.

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• I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

  Robert Englund

  People, Rejection, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.

  Lauren Cohan

  Atlanta, Years, Kind

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  Jerry Hall

  Three, Rehearsal, Graduates

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• I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

  Beau Mirchoff

  School, Childhood, Normal

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• My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

  David Nicholls

  Holiday, Sea, Worry

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

  Elia Kazan

  Horse, Cowboy, Play

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• I just want an opportunity. If you don’t like the audition, don’t hire me! But if you don’t want to even see me - that’s hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!

  Jessica Biel

  Opportunity, Hurtful, Want

  "Jessica Biel In Allure: My Beauty 'Really Is A Problem'". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

  Emilie de Ravin

  Children, Children Love

  "The Verge Q+A: Emilie de Ravin Talks About the "Lost" Finale". Interview with Raha Naddaf, www.gq.com. June 9, 2010.

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• I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

  Will Estes

  Fields, Committed, Shows

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• I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.

  Wentworth Miller

  Friday, Monday, Years

  "60 SECONDS: Wentworth Miller". Interview With Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. April 18, 2006.

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