Auditions Quotes

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.

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.

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

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

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

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.

I find the worst audition is the no audition.

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.

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

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.

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

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.

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.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

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.

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.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

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.

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

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.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

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.

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

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.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

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

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.

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.

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.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

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.

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.

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.

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