1.
I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.
Michelle Rodriguez
2.
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
Harvey Fierstein
3.
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot
Donnie Wahlberg
5.
I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.
Dylan O'Brien
6.
I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
George Clooney
7.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Mayim Bialik
8.
My agent called me and said, "You have an audition for James Bond. They're looking for the girl." And I told him, "Listen, it's all in English. I'm not an actress. I'm not going to go." He thought I was kidding with him.
Gal Gadot
9.
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
Jonathan Groff
10.
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
Adepero Oduye
11.
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
Al Pacino
12.
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
Victoria Abril
13.
Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
Sophie Turner
14.
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.
Robert De Niro
15.
I find the worst audition is the no audition.
Emma Stone
16.
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
17.
Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.
Stephen Amell
18.
I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.
Demi Moore
19.
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
John Lennon
20.
I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.
Jamie Dornan
21.
When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
22.
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
23.
If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."
Evan Peters
24.
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce Dickinson
25.
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.
Ben Stiller
26.
Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.
Johnny Carson
27.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Willard Scott
28.
The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
Paula Abdul
29.
It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.
Gemma Arterton
30.
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
31.
I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.
Chrissie Fit
32.
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
Sarah Brightman
33.
You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.
Cassie Ventura
34.
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
Demi Lovato
35.
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin
36.
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
Bill Nighy
37.
Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.
Paula Abdul
38.
I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.
Rhys Darby
39.
Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.
Erica Schroeder
41.
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.
Simon Cowell
42.
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
Julie Benz
43.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
Micky Dolenz
44.
But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
Cory Monteith
45.
Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
Jack Huston
46.
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
47.
I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.
Xavier Samuel
48.
I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
Ariel Winter
49.
I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".
John Cameron Mitchell
50.
I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
Kunal Nayyar