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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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• When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

  Ben Whishaw

  Actors, Levels, Able

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

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• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  Jake Busey

  Perfect, Trying, Progress

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• Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

  Sophie Turner

  Jobs, Thinking, Walks

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• This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

  Paul McCartney

  Firsts, First Time

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• In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Couple, Shooting, Pilots

  "Daniela Bobadilla Talks ANGER MANAGEMENT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

  Derek Sivers

  Successful, Years, Tv Shows

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

  David Lee

  Dream, Way, Plans

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Hard Work, Rejection, Needs

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• Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.

  Stephen Amell

  Three, Actors, Three Words

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• What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Real, Curves

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• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

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• I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

  David Walton

  New York, Years, Half

  "About A Boy's David Walton explains how Fired Up! won the L.A. Lakers a championship". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2014.

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• I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Needs, Roles, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  Lance Reddick

  Instinct, Notes, Tricky

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

  Ving Rhames

  Football, Teacher, Art

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

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• My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

  Danny Strong

  Reading, Tv Shows, Casting

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• Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Practice

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• If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Thinking, Roles, Chance

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

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Knights, Projects, Tales

  "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon " by Smitri Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.

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• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Goal, Feelings, Might

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

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Ideas, America, Actors

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