Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Williams

We had auditions for the drum line right after Thanksgiving. Things have been really going nonstop around here.

Bridgit Mendler

I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.

Dave Bautista

Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.

Rachel Tucker

My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I went out on auditions because I didn't know if I was coming back on '24,' and then my pilot got picked up, so I was in London for nine weeks.

Joan Chen

I went on auditions for a movie called Year of the Dragon. I was pretty much fresh off the boat, and I had a little baby fat on me. I was a cute - really cute 22-year-old.

Elizabeth Banks

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Melinda Clarke

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

Madonna Ciccone

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

We have auditions every semester. There are between 65 and 80 members usually, depending on the repertoire I am programming.

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.

Joel McHale

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

Loretta Devine

I still have to audition for most things.

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

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.

Christina Aguilera

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

Frank Welker

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Eve Hewson

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

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.

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

Darren Boyd

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.

Chris Geere

Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don't really mind if I don't get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.

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.

Ethan Hawke

I have had so many bad auditions.

Evan Peters

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.

Adam Pally

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

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.

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.

Ryan Cayabyab

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

Madhur Mittal

Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.

Paul McCartney

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