As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn’t speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
I was Bookings Production Manager at Vogue, a fancy way of saying that I helped produce photo shoots and booked hair, makeup, and modeling talent.
I was at House Of Hardcore for Tommy Dreamer. Good guy, great guy, great eye for talent – that’s why he booked me.
If I’ve learned anything in the last seven or eight years it’s that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that every time I’m booked for something, I’m ill, and anything – like a TV opportunity – I treat as my last ever one because it’s maybe my swansong.
When I got out of college, I booked a movie called ‘Go for It!’ with Lionsgate, came out here, and I’ve been acting ever since – or trying, constantly trying.
I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.’ I thought, ‘Well, I’m just going to move to L.A. and become famous. ‘Squeakwell’ is going to launch me to that point.’ Well, I didn’t end up working for, like, three years afterward. That’s kind of the name of the game.
I have to say, Franz in ‘Rock of Ages,’ I had three final callbacks for that role before I booked it – it was something that I’d dreamed of. I wanted to play that role. I love that show.
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I’d say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn’t have any rehearsal.
We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I’ve lost way more projects than I’ve booked. I’ve learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!
A lot of the time with jobs that I’ve booked, immediately I’ll read the breakdown, or I’ll read the script, and I’m like, ‘Oh I’d love to do this, but I’m completely wrong for it,’ and they tend to be the jobs that I book.
How can I die? I’m booked.
I’ve been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I’ve been on a million auditions for a million things I haven’t booked.
I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.
I booked an E-Trade commercial. That’s a lucrative gig.
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
I booked time in Philly Sound, which is an old church in south Philly that has a studio to the side of it that holds about 350 people. On the radio, we announced a free gig, bought about three kegs of beer. That got the audience slightly off of their legs, and we rocked the house.
The first job I booked was on ‘True Blood.’ I played a blood siren.
How can I die? I’m booked.
I’ve been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I’m out that money. It sucks.
If Kate Moss hadn’t been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in ‘Twilight,’ put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.
I booked ‘Transformers’ having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: ‘You’ve got to get your game together fast.’ It sucks, but I’m trying.
If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I’m going to get booked for more jobs.
The first job that I booked was a small role in James Franco’s film ‘Bukowski.’ I had to make out with a 13-year-old kid. I think it was his first kiss. I was 15. I became so nervous on set that I actually fainted when James Franco came to direct me.
I found an agent midway through my year-long run at ‘Grease’ and just started to audition. I fortunately booked ‘South Pacific’ six months after ‘Grease’ was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in ‘Twilight,’ put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.
I didn’t know much about the ‘Walking Dead’ until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, ‘Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.’
The more time I invested in myself and finding out what made me unique and special, the more jobs and campaigns I booked.
When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team ‘Arrow.’ It wasn’t until I’d booked the role that they told me who I’d be playing.
When I was 13, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film roles. I booked shows like ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager,’ ‘Liv and Maddie,’ and ‘Teen Wolf.’
I was 18 years old when I booked ‘Youth in Revolt,’ and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie – and even then, I didn’t feel like I had made it.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
I worked with Jack Nitzsche for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and we’d booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that – with some Indian flutes and some drums.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
When I work with Lil Jon, as soon as I come in the studio, he already knows what we’re gonna do. He’s one of those producers where when you know you’ve got a session booked with them, you’re job is easier because they’re probably already going to have an idea or a hook.
If Kate Moss hadn’t been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
I used to audition like crazy – I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked ‘Galaxy Quest,’ and then it started to get easier.
I had no idea who Elektra was. When the producers asked me before I booked the job, I had to tell them. It was a great surprise when I actually got the job.
The people can say what they want, but fact remains that Neymar has been booked more often than me.
I can’t get booked on the Fourth of July, or it’ll be, ‘Do you want to open for the opener for Toby Keith?’ Hell, no.
When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team ‘Arrow.’ It wasn’t until I’d booked the role that they told me who I’d be playing.
The first job that I booked was a small role in James Franco’s film ‘Bukowski.’ I had to make out with a 13-year-old kid. I think it was his first kiss. I was 15. I became so nervous on set that I actually fainted when James Franco came to direct me.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system, and the program tosses a ticket that says ‘fake’ on it. Twice I’ve gone to the counter for a KLM flight through Northwest and have been rejected.
I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.
