Quotes About Auditions

#1. If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.

Bette Midler

#2. It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

Bresha Webb

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

Emilie De Ravin

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

Ariel Winter

#5. People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

Berenice Bejo

#6. With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

Olivia DeJonge

#7. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

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

Bruce Dickinson

#9. When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Rico Rodriguez

#10. In auditions, you're not up against anyone else; you're both going in for the role, and it's like, whoever's right for it will get it. It's simple. It's not like, 'Oh I won!' There's never that element. It is very supportive.

Matthew James Thomas

#11. I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Rachel McAdams

#12. There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Eve Hewson

#13. It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen test, and they'd say, 'Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,' and you'd just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever.

Vinessa Shaw

#14. 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

#15. I used to see my friend Harland Williams in a lot of auditions. Then you'd see one of the DeLuise kids because they're kind of heavy and character-y. You'd just see a lot of the same guys over the years.

Brian Posehn

#16. I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

Nina Dobrev

#17. If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

Bill Nighy

#18. Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

Stephen Amell

#19. Whenever I audition for something, if I get excited about the project I'm totally committed to it from that point on. But it can also be a long process, so when I eventually get given the part it's then that I realise that I've actually got to do it and here comes the work!

Matthew Kane

#20. Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Diane Paulus

#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 honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

Bailee Madison

#23. 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

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

Jonathan Groff

#25. I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.

Kathrine Narducci

#26. I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

Cassie Ventura

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

John Lennon

#28. It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.

Shannyn Sossamon

#29. I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Berenice Marlohe

#30. I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

Zoe Kazan

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

Linda Lavin

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

Paul McCartney

#33. New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.

Catherine Mary Stewart

#34. I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

John Krasinski

#35. Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.

Madhur Mittal

#36. I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

Mark Ruffalo

#37. I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Chris Colfer

#38. No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.

Lauren Socha

#39. I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

Michael Fassbender

#40. Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

Tatiana Maslany

#41. I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

Sean Bean

#42. I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

Moon Bloodgood

#43. Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.

Dave Bautista

#44. I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

Callum Keith Rennie

#45. You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Jenifer Lewis

#46. When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

#47. I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it.

Charlie Tahan

#48. I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

Krysten Ritter

#49. I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

Eric Christian Olsen

#50. I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

Mark Valley

#51. We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

Jenji Kohan

#52. Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Ike Barinholtz

#53. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#54. In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

Nathan Parsons

#55. 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

#56. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Tika Sumpter

#57. 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

#58. I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.

Noureen DeWulf

#59. 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

#60. It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

Keith Stanfield

#61. I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Conan Stevens

#62. If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

Greta Gerwig

#63. The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#64. I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

Hank Azaria

#65. I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

Christopher Parker

#66. I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

Morgan Saylor

#67. I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for 'The Wizard Of Oz.'

Nico Tortorella

#68. It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

Kieran Culkin

#69. 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

#70. I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

Phil Ramone

#71. 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

#72. I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?

James Mercer

#73. I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Trevor Donovan

#74. When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

Jay Ellis

#75. Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

Ray Charles

#76. Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

Bob Bergen

#77. 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

#78. 'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.

Ari Millen

#79. It's true; I have a skill and it's ... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

Tim Allen

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

Demi Lovato

#81. The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.

Malin Akerman

#82. I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#83. 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

#84. The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

Lily James

#85. With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.

Jim Jefferies

#86. I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

John Gallagher Jr.

#87. I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

Elle Fanning

#88. 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

#89. Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

Darren Boyd

#90. Asexuality, auditions, and Ashlinn. The world was giving me reason to worship the A section of my dictionary.

Calista Lynne

#91. 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

#92. I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

Malcolm Gladwell

#93. When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.

Luke Benward

#94. I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

Zoe Kazan

#95. I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

Grace Jones

#96. I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

Creed Bratton

#97. I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

Rhys Darby

#98. Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

Paula Abdul

#99. When I was in school I would try and take all my classes early in the morning or at night so that I would have most of the day to go out on auditions.

Pawel Szajda

#100. I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

Sofia Vergara