Auditions Quotes

• I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.

  

  Erica Cerra
  • Lessons
  • My Father
  • Vancouver

• 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
  • Managed
  • Ufo

• 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

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

  

  Willard Scott
  • Disaster
  • Auditions
  • Airline

• 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

• ('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

• I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Path

• Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • People
  • Band
  • Doors

• 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 didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Mom
  • Directors
  • Remembered

• I did loads of auditions and I didn't get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I'm still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don't feel like I've done that much.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Process
  • Hollywood
  • Cheerleading

• I adore vintage clothes. When I go on the road doing auditions for So You Think You Can Dance, I always research the cities we're traveling to so I know where all the best vintage stores are. There are several stores and flea markets I love here in LA. Shareen is amazing with the best edit in town! Golyester is great. I really enjoy the Rose Bowl market. A word of warning: wear layers, comfortable shoes, be prepared to hunt, and fuel yourself with a bucket of cappuccino! Enjoy!

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Adore

• I was on holiday in Ibiza, having a lovely time, writing a book and looking at the stars every night and generally not having a care in the world. Then I got sent the script for 'Death in Paradise.' I couldn't get back to England in time for the auditions, so my girlfriend filmed me on her camera, and I sent it off via email.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Care
  • Girlfriend
  • Script

• And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Week
  • Directors
  • Degrees

• Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

  

  Erika Christensen
  • Around
  • Sitting
  • Cigarette

• Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Stage
  • Lucky
  • Numbers

• 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 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

• When I go to these auditions, I feel like I have to prove myself 10 times over... acting is a challenge.

  

  La La Anthony
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Auditions

• The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

  

  Timothy Bottoms
  • Serious
  • Film
  • Stuff

• 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

• 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 Broken Bells
  • Kind
  • Decision
  • Feels

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