Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dax Shepard

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

Oona Chaplin

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.

Joseph Mazzello

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.

Lilla Crawford

When I found out that they were doing a revival of 'Annie,' I decided to audition just for fun and see how it turned out. So I auditioned, and I got a callback after callback after callback. And I just wanted to be a part of the show; I didn't care what role.

Lin Shaye

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

Kat Graham

My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

Kat Graham

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

Leila Janah

Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.

Craig Sheffer

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

Crystal Bowersox

I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

Pete Hegseth

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

William Sadler

I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

William Sadler

As a director, it became important to hear that specific role read by that specific actor, and you hear the chemistry, or you don't hear the chemistry. So I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

Charlie Puth

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Haywood Nelson

Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of 'Cooly High.' When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.

Alex Meraz

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

We'd like to talk further with the audit bureau and clarify this. We definitely believe they (the expenditures) are allowable.

Tom Coburn

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

Sela Ward

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

Valerie Azlynn

On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Los Angeles. It was so hectic. I remember changing in my car before I went in to read.

Ongoing, day-to-day cash flow (to buy cocoa beans) will be structured in such a way that it is monitored by outside auditors twice a year.

Robbie Williams

I was supposed to go on to college and to university-which is a really good idea!... but I didn't have any qualifications. So I had to audition to everything and... I got into this band called Take That... I don't know if you've heard of them... And-that's how it happened.

Larry Brown

There are no auditions anymore. I know what we have.

I am very comfortable having the auditors coming in and looking at our big picture and knowing that the interests of Lauderdale County and our six other counties are at heart. And that the money and in-kind donations we spent very appropriately.

I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Jonas Armstrong

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

Shameik Moore

My auntie and uncle live in Inglewood, and I used to stay with them when I would come to L.A. to audition for pilot season and other things like that.

Lesley Gore

Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.

Dylan Moran

I don't walk around knocking on doors and going to auditions and things generally. All the work I did was self-created.

James Wolk

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.

Aimee Garcia

I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won 45 million dollars.

Allison Jones

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.