All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people – and whatever it takes to show other colors.
I auditioned for ‘Coco’ when I was nine years old, and I had no idea I was auditioning for a Disney/Pixar movie. When I was 10, they told me that it was going to be a Disney/Pixar movie, and I was just mind-blown. I was so shocked and thankful that I was going to Pixar.
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don’t pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I’m auditioning for a role, when I’m putting myself on tape for something, I always consider what the hairstyle is going to be because it changes the way people perceive me.
Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.
When I started auditioning, I’d take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn’t go as well as the comedic.
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn’t take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.
When I was starting out, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn’t even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I’d even finished.
I came in the Dawson’s Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven’t looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
When I got the script for ‘Mr. Robot,’ I was auditioning for a bunch of stuff. I had an audition going for a movie at the time that I wanted to do.
Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn’t get the jobs.
When I was auditioning, I didn’t know it was ‘Daredevil.’ Everything was secret. They’re secret agents. They wouldn’t give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.
I’m used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
I am auditioning again – getting back to theatre would be amazing.
I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
I had to go through a grilling process to meet Mr. Aditya Chopra. It took a lot of time and auditioning.
When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.
I’m auditioning for anything that’s good that comes my way.
Some of my friends were going to dancing school and, when one of them was auditioning for a ballet school in Kiev, my mother saw an opportunity for me to do that, so we could move to a bigger, better city.
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I had started writing for ‘Sports Illustrated,’ which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for ‘Letterman’ or ’70s-era Carson.
I was really bored in school because I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.
I don’t believe in auditioning. I’m a bad auditioner. I don’t like it.
I didn’t start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for ‘Matilda’ The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
I’m still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
Some set experiences are not good, and sometimes the auditioning process is not fun. There are a lot of different things about this industry that can just make you not enjoy it.
The ‘Sisters’ phenomenon was a byproduct of the ‘Trainwreck’ deal. I had to do the normal auditioning process for ‘Trainwreck’. I was extremely nervous for it, because you plan for this one event, and you get the opportunity.
I didn’t have to audition. That’s common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think… let the character develop and grow inside me.
I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn’t wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton’s wedding.
I don’t want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I’m not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
I actually started snowboarding when I was 7 years old, so I felt very comfortable auditioning for a snowboarding movie, and I thought that would give me some leg up.
I’m not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It’s one of my favorite things.
When I first heard from my manager, who asked me, ‘There’s this Disney ‘Mulan,’ do you want to audition for it?’ I’d heard that so many people were auditioning. So, I asked myself what I could bring.
It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That’s the problem with auditioning.
I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they’re auditioning, because their terror calms me.
For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.
I’ve had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.
I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for ‘Galavant.’ But ‘Galavant’ was quite a wide casting call. I wasn’t recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.
Doesn’t make a difference who you’re auditioning for; whatever it is, you have an audience, and you have a role, and you have the opportunity to perform that role the best you can for this audience. If you look at it like that, it doesn’t make a difference if you get the part or not.
I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn’t getting jobs. I even tested for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and didn’t get that.
There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.
Well, I’ll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I’ll go to LA and try out for films there.
I particularly want more acting. I’ve been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
Auditioning is the worst.
A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, ‘Well, hang on buddy. I’ve done half a century of this.’
I can’t say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I’ve encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on ‘The Sopranos.’
As a drag diva auditioning in Hollywood, I’ve run the gamut.
Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don’t know. And you have to pretend that you don’t know because they’re just staring at you.
After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.
I’ve been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don’t mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven’t had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be ’cause I’ve been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
I always like auditioning because it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, I have an audition – yay!’ It means opportunity for work, which is great. But it’s scary as well, because you put so much pressure on yourself.
