Ethan Hawke Quotes

I have had so many bad auditions.

Ethan Hawke

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• The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Guy
  • Selling
  • Auditions

• 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
  • Role
  • Series
  • Auditions

• When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Greek

• I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a lot for voiceover stuff. I actually don't book a lot of it, and I love doing it so I get disappointed because I want to do more voice stuff.

  

  Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Stills

• I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

  

  Bernie Marsden
  • Band
  • Auditions
  • Managed

• Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

  

  Nicole Trunfio
  • Auditions

• I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Wife
  • Shows
  • Idols

• The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

  

  Michele Lee
  • Mother
  • Want
  • Rejection

• Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

  

  Michael Cudlitz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Auditions

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

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Auditions
  • Files

• I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Different
  • Teacher
  • Moved

• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Rejection
  • Cake
  • Auditions

• I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Laughing
  • Auditions
  • Corridors

• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Miserable
  • Horrible
  • Seasons

• Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Scripts
  • Auditions
  • Semester

• I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Talent
  • Auditions

• The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Change
  • Internet
  • Camera

• Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Musicians
  • Beatles

• Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Job
  • Parent
  • Blessing

• I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.

  

  Estelle
  • Singing
  • Challenge
  • I Love

• It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

  

  Aristotle
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Centered

• If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, Pure, hard, certain — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Certain

• I have had so many bad auditions.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Auditions