Auditions Quotes - Page 3

• I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

  Alexis Bledel

  New York, Agency, One Day

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• I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.

  Russell Brand

  Sex, Two, Cynical

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 28, 2012

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• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Trials, Wenger

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• To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Waiting, Rooms

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• I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Art, School

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I can record auditions from my office in my home

  Jason Marsden

  Home, Office, Records

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• And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

  Charlize Theron

  Jeans, Careers, People

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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  Teddy Sears

  New York, Moving, Years

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

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• Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

  Linda Lavin

  Thinking, Talking, Knows

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• The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Crazy, Men, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

  Ben Stiller

  Years, Ideas, Fake

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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• When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Kids, Boston

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

  Nicholas Lea

  Who I Am, People, Walks

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

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• I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .

  Carla Gugino

  Thinking, Serious, Moments

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, New York, Children

  "Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl Talk THE NUT JOB, Creating the Voices for Their Characters, Collaborating with the Director and Animators, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 16, 2014.

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• But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Years, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  Wallace Shawn

  Reality, Giving, Advice

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

  Hilarie Burton

  Tree, Lucky, Television

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Aug 22, 2013

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• I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

  Ariel Winter

  Giving, Done, Shots

  "Ariel Winter is Proud to Play Smart Characters". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. March 22, 2012.

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• When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

  Albert Brooks

  Couple, Class, Insecurity

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the "Drive". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

  Armie Hammer

  Hands, Two, Paper

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• I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

  Jonah Hill

  Writing, Heart, Play

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

  Ben Feldman

  New York, Simple, Play

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• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Hate, Play, Envy

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• I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.

  Ruth Negga

  Thinking, Mouths, Want

  "Ethiopian-Irish Actress Ruth Negga Believes Her Heritage Is Negatively Affecting Her Career" by Emmanuel Akitobi, www.indiewire.com. September 03, 2012.

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