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Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk. -- Mayim Bialik
The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much. -- Kieran Culkin
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. -- John Goodman
After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.' -- Emilia Clarke
I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice. -- Robert De Niro
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. -- Al Pacino
If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show. -- Nev Schulman
I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it. -- Rita Rudner
If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm. -- Ben Schnetzer
When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia. -- Deborah Kara Unger
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. -- John Ratzenberger
I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life. -- James Wolk
Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position I wanted to be in, where I could audition for projects that I wanted to be a part of. I didn't find it creatively fulfilling in any way though. -- Michael Pitt
I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M. -- Laura Osnes
When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around. -- Megan Charpentier
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible. -- Emilia Clarke
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited. -- Eliza Dushku
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. -- Liam Neeson
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting. -- Hannibal Buress
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded. -- Shailene Woodley
I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring. -- Anna Silk
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on. -- Nate Berkus
Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position I wanted to be in, where I could audition for projects that I wanted to be a part of. I didn't find it creatively fulfilling in any way, though. Working with artists excites me, but 'Dawson's Creek' didn't do that. -- Michael Pitt
I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing. -- Troian Bellisario
I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see. -- Omar Dorsey
I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound up getting a job as Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' at Disneyland. I did that for about a year and a half. -- Sarah Butler
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted. -- Ving Rhames
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking. -- Christina Aguilera
I still have to audition for most things. -- Loretta Devine
I haven't really ever had to audition for anything. -- Dawn French
He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir! -- Gorilla Monsoon
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. -- Mason Cooley
When you go on an audition it's very frightening. -- Victoria Jackson
I find the worst audition is the no audition. -- Emma Stone
I failed the audition to get into drama school. -- Peter Capaldi
Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon. -- Paula Abdul
Any time you audition and get it, you earned it. -- Michael Ealy
In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition. -- Bob Fosse
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers. -- Julie Benz
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that. -- Baz Luhrmann
The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition. -- Aya Cash
My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever. -- Isabel Lucas
I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer. -- Martin Freeman
My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie. -- Meghan Markle
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? -- Helena Bonham Carter
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano. -- Bebe Neuwirth
Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it. -- Nicole Trunfio
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.' -- Bebe Neuwirth
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition. -- Al Pacino
I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington. -- Derek Luke
I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent. -- Allison Tolman
You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are. -- Cassie Ventura
Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep. -- Tucker Max
To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. -- Joan Chen
This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition. -- Paul McCartney
Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you. -- Madhur Mittal
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself. -- Michael Shurtleff
As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition. -- Julie McNiven
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition -- Elia Kazan
Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it. -- Rafe Spall
A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost. -- Evangeline Lilly
In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities. -- Xavier Samuel
As for 'Supernatural,' I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition. -- Julie McNiven
Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am. -- Nicholas Lea
For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it. -- Erica Schroeder
Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. -- Jolene Purdy
That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know? -- David Lee
You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly. -- Cassie Steele
I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive. -- Chrissie Fit
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. -- Lance Reddick
I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.' -- Kierston Wareing
I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film. -- Anil Kapoor
I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround. -- Rupert Grint
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself. -- Moon Bloodgood
No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film. -- Richard Farnsworth
If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this. -- Evan Peters
I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried. -- Lake Bell
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. -- Oscar Isaac
I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top. -- Madeline Zima
The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role. -- Dayo Okeniyi
Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever. -- Sophie Turner
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. -- Judith Jamison
Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance. -- Patti Stanger
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director. -- Alden Ehrenreich
It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part. -- Ron Eldard
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition. -- Joel McHale
My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery. -- Kat Dennings
I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.' -- John C. McGinley
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition. -- Francesca Gregorini
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition. -- Jeremy Irvine
If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. -- Matthew Perry
It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition. -- Morgan Saylor
I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted. -- Rhys Darby
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. -- Victoria Abril
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life. -- Dominic West
I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it. -- Kurt Fuller
I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast. -- Jay London
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition. -- John Lennon
I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.' -- Jared Harris
Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood. -- Sarah Shahi
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural. -- Sienna Miller
So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started. -- Rod Taylor
When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic. -- Leslie Mann
In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition. -- Keira Knightley
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it. -- Chukwudi Iwuji
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
When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it. -- Lauren Cohan
Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you. -- Janina Gavankar
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them. -- James Frain
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt. -- Jake Abel
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
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. -- Jake Abel
I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too. -- Lea Michele
The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it. -- Lena Headey
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas. -- Bill Nighy
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice. -- Ewan McGregor
If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going. -- Krysten Ritter

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