Quotes About Auditions

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me. She allowed me to be my flamboyant self as a kid. She babysat me; auditions came later - by later, I mean six years old. She sang and played piano, and I'd sit beside her. I don't know how confident I am, but I think you need it to survive in this industry.

Actors are separated all the time.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance, or act.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

But as an actor, you spend the majority of your life being rejected.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.

If you read the script, and the character's got something in it that you relate to, then I am keen. But I really think, a lot of the time, my successful auditions are those where I really care about the characters.

A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.

A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

For a long time when I was first starting out, I didn't have an agent, I hadn't really gone to many auditions... I was very unaware of how the industry worked so I didn't have the preconceptions or worries.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.