Steve Lukather Quotes

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

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• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Part
  • Final

• I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Audition
  • Ireland

• The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

  

  John Randolph
  • War
  • Fear

• If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Up
  • Play
  • Horse

• I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Different
  • Proud
  • Audition

• The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Man
  • Thinks
  • Efficient

• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Different
  • Together
  • Woman

• I find the worst audition is the no audition.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Audition

• Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Confidence
  • Competition
  • Audition

• I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.

  

  Adina Porter
  • Kids
  • Balance
  • Next

• There are challenges in life, and it was a great challenge to have (became a member of Judas Preist). The situation I was getting into, I knew what it stood for to me and to millions of people around the world. You get an opportunity like that, a chance to audition, you've got to do it. It worked out.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • Challenge
  • Chance
  • Member

• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

  

  Rebecca Lobo
  • College
  • Degree
  • Audition

• Initially, when I'd heard of 'Teen Wolf,' I had never actually sat down to watch the series. But during my audition process, before I had a clue that I would even be considered, I started watching the show to get a feel for it and to see what type of show it was.

  

  Arden Cho
  • Watching
  • Audition
  • Teen Wolf

• I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before Embraced and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, "This is mine!" And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Role
  • Audition
  • Aaron Spelling

• Luck is not what gets you the acting gigs, your talent does, but luck gets you the opportunity to audition for the acting gig. Once you get in that casting room your luck has run out and all that you're left with is your talent to rely on.

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Opportunity
  • Talent
  • Luck

• I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

  

  Isabel Lucas
  • Acting
  • Outcome
  • Audition

• It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Life
  • Change
  • Audition

• I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Audition
  • Dance team

• Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

  

  Michael Madigan
  • World
  • Everywhere
  • Bosses

• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Money
  • Jesus
  • Race

• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Career

• Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

  

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