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I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem. -- George Clooney
And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that. -- Charlize Theron
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience? -- Al Pacino
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. -- Mason Cooley
I can record auditions from my office in my home -- Jason Marsden
Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines. -- Paula Abdul
It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions. -- Samantha Bee
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself. -- Michael Shurtleff
The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally. -- Paula Abdul
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. -- Victoria Abril
When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true. -- Paula Abdul
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person. -- Tatiana Maslany
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it. -- Robert De Niro
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all. -- Darren Boyd
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows -- Dan Castellaneta
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them. -- Ian Hart
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
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
I want to start a band called "Friday Have Been Cancelled" and then hold open auditions every Friday. The sign will read, "Auditions For Friday Have Been Cancelled." I sure hope nobody shows up because I certainly won't be there. -- Jarod Kintz
I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some. -- Alexis Bledel
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless. -- Simon Cowell
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
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?' -- Malin Akerman
Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some advancement in your career. But when you get out there, you don't realize how many auditions you have to go on before you actually get work. -- Mike Colter
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. -- Aaron Eckhart
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
My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both. -- Andy Serkis
When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor. -- Ben Feldman
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way. -- Annette Bening
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?' -- Demi Lovato
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door. -- Ian Hart
Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job. -- Suki Waterhouse
I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs. -- Erica Cerra
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'. -- Anna Chancellor
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions. -- Mark Valley
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.' -- Zooey Deschanel
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
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down. -- Oona Chaplin
I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions. -- Bailee Madison
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through. -- Oona Chaplin
I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out. -- Billy Porter
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life. -- Nina Conti
I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever. -- Kara Hayward
What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'. -- America Ferrera
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. -- Sofia Vergara
I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day. -- Anna Camp
Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game. -- Ike Barinholtz
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. -- Henry Rollins
I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice. -- Lily Collins
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far. -- Olivia Colman
Zlatan doesn't do auditions. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I have had so many bad auditions. -- Ethan Hawke
Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing. -- Simon Cowell
I can record auditions from my office in my home. -- Jason Marsden
I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions. -- Chika Anadu
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking. -- Linda Lavin
I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working. -- Creed Bratton
I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me. -- Alex Meraz
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. -- Shawn Ashmore
I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything. -- Chris Colfer
I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions. -- Emilie de Ravin
I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors. -- Shaun Sipos
People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people -- Berenice Bejo
I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities. -- Kevin Richardson
We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show. -- Craig McCracken
Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. -- Ari Millen
I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room. -- Adam Driver
Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor. -- Rachele Brooke Smith
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists. -- Bruce Dickinson
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed. -- Mark Ruffalo
You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in. -- Rachel McAdams
Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it. -- Sela Ward
I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people. -- Pamela Anderson
When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school! -- Logan Lerman
I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10-11 years old. -- Regina King
I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot. -- Ariel Winter
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful. -- Jonathan Groff
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood. -- Beau Mirchoff
I'd been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. -- Jamie Dornan
I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment. -- Lauren Miller
After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some. -- Kel Mitchell
Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say. -- Stephen Amell
I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera. -- Zachary Quinto
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. -- Kevin Hart
I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it. -- Britt Robertson
It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition. -- Morgan Saylor
There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit. -- Chris Pine
Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990. -- Bob Bergen
And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work. -- Noureen DeWulf
When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions. -- Rebecca Mader
I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.' -- Gattlin Griffith
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me! -- Robert Pattinson
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions. -- Archie Panjabi
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions. -- Eve Hewson
I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line. -- Charlie Puth
I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be honest. -- Zachary Quinto
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress. -- Cassie Ventura
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other. -- Hugh Jackman
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano. -- Ray Charles
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding. -- David Walton
I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows. -- Aaron Korsh
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun. -- Kristen Connolly
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. -- Ben Stiller
It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard. -- Orianthi
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions. -- Jacob Latimore
A lot of auditions are not fun; theyre just a necessary evil, and, if youre lucky, you have a few moments that are fun. -- Kristen Connolly
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway. -- Tom Lenk
I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college. -- Brendan Dooling
If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless. -- Henry Cavill
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself. -- Jamie Chung
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo. -- Celine Buckens
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions. -- Katie Leclerc
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows. -- Dan Castellaneta
I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school. -- Eric Christian Olsen

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