Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Chris Colfer

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Louise Jameson

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

Laurie Metcalf

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

Bill Nighy

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

Nia Long

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Lamorne Morris

I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.

Kurt Braunohler

Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Shanley Caswell

Sometimes you go into an audition and you'll do what you think the character is, and then if they agree, then it's awesome and you'll book it maybe, and you'll live happily ever after. But sometimes they don't agree.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Ai Weiwei

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.