Audition Quotes

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

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Audition

• I loved her audition/work session. Her emotions were so close to the surface,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Work
  • Audition
  • Session

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Role

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.

  

  Retta
  • Opportunity
  • Acting
  • Because

• At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

  

  Cheryl Lynn
  • Afraid
  • Audition
  • Gong Show

• I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Funny
  • Actor
  • Genius

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

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Ireland
  • Audition

• '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

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

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • You
  • Very
  • Audition

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

  

  Cheryl Lynn
  • Group
  • Audition
  • Choir

• I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Played
  • Episode
  • Entourage

• The last thing we wanted to do was audition a long line of permanent bassists.

  

  Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
  • Audition
  • Last Thing
  • Bassists

• 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
  • Idol

• 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

• 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
  • Records
  • Attracted
  • Audition

• At my audition, I had one of those anxiety visions where you do something totally crazy in your mind, just to torture yourself with the possibility, just to wonder what would happen if you actually did it.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Crazy
  • Anxiety
  • Visions

• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Character
  • Scene

• It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Smart
  • Luck
  • Jeopardy

• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • American
  • Accent
  • Taping

• I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Actually

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