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.

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.

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!'

Aasif Mandvi

One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

Tom Lenk

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.

Eric Christian Olsen

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.

Katie Holmes

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

Chris Hemsworth

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

Nico Tortorella

I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for 'The Wizard Of Oz.'

Lauren Socha

No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Meraz

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

Sela Ward

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

Larry Brown

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

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.

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.

Allison Tolman

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

Chris Pine

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

Dylan O'Brien

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

Daniel Radcliffe

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

Derek Luke

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Dawn French

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

Jon Lewis

I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine would have been given a chance in auditions if I hadn't been successful with more rockin' tunes.

Kristen Connolly

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.

Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

Diane Paulus

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Beth Riesgraf

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

Ryan Seacrest

This season we had to stop auditions because one of his fake teeth came out, and he had to call in a dentist with drills to the back of the hotel, and they had to put in a new tooth. He'll actually be p-- that I told you this, but you've got to print it.