Quotes About Struggle

I usually don't get the movies I audition for.

I have had so many bad auditions.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

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.

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.

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.

I used to cry on the way to auditions.

Sometimes with auditions and going up for a role, you don't want to admit to yourself that it's everything you've ever wanted.

I don't know how I ever built a career, really, because I have always been absolutely terrible at auditions.

I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

As a player it was always not easy to play against Australia. It was always very difficult.

When I was in Australia, I had three different agents in three different years, and I didn't have one audition. They were good agents; I just never had one audition that was the right stuff.

I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.

In Australia nothing comes easy. It's one of the hardest places to play.

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.