Quotes About Auditions

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.

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

Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just going, 'Oh really, so why do you think that?' And they're just looking at a piece of paper.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.

I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.

I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

When I was 19, 20 I faced rejections. When I turned 20 I signed my south film and by the time I was 23, I had done three south films. I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance or act.

One year, I did 10 or 11 pilots of TV shows that never went anywhere.

I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.