Quotes About Career

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore.

I'm just going to continue to think about what kind of films I want to do and what's out there for me to audition for, and I love trying.

I have been very lucky from the moment I went to my first audition, which was for 'CSI: New York,' and I got it.

'Richie' was my first Tamil audition and first Tamil film.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

Back in early 2008, I gave my audition for Chotti Bahu' in Chandigarh and that's how the journey began.

I'm auditioning for anything that's good that comes my way.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

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

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

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 had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

I've never actually played an Australian or worked in Australia. I really want to change that. I really want to work here - that would be great.

Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.

I became a children's author by accident.

I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.