Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Luke

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

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.

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.

Larry Brown

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

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Cayabyab

They held auditions in Manila at least five times seeing some 400 to 500 Filipinos.

Isabel Lucas

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

I'll be spending time in Munich and London with the goal to do auditions and spend even more time over there.

In our first year, when no one knew us and no one cared, we had auditions on the sidewalk. This has become a big deal to a lot of people.

Jonas Armstrong

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Morgan Saylor

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

Michael Ealy

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

James Frain

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.

Leslie Mann

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless.

Jay Chandrasekhar

The truth is she would come in and did some auditions and they were quiet and small,

Mayim Bialik

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.

David Jones

Adan came to see me for more lessons before his auditions in Chicago. When he was in the school choir, we would meet in the mornings before his classes for private voice lessons. I'm very proud of what he's doing. Adan has a talent and a wonderful voice.

Bel Powley

A lot of the auditions in L.A. do feel like cattle calls, with hundreds of people. I started to lose sight of what I wanted, because you get so desperate for a job that you stop caring whether it's a good script. You're just pleased to be testing for something - but then if you get it, you're doing it for potentially six years, so it's a lottery.

Lena Headey

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

Tatiana Maslany

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

Simon Cowell

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

Rafe Spall

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

First of all we went to auditions in our classrooms in front of three judges. The Brits are pretty, pretty big.

We went through hundreds of people in the auditions because the role was so defining. As soon as Michael Vale walked into the bathroom in his pajamas and said 'Time to make the doughnuts, time to make the doughnuts,' we knew.

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

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.

I've looked at our membership list recently. And we have had over 120 people come to our auditions over the years.

Paul McCartney

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.