Top 202 Auditions Quotes

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called ‘High Society,’ so we moved to New York for the run of that.

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?

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.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn’t even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

I saw the kid playing Simba on stage and I thought, ‘I can do that, nothing special there,’ and then two weeks later, I saw auditions in the newspaper and I asked if I could go, and I lucked out and got it.

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

I was like, ‘I’m only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I’m never going to do TV.’ And whenever I’d get auditions for TV, I’d be like, ‘Okay, whatever. I’ve got a lisp, so they’re not going to take me.’ And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.

I don’t want to disregard any of the struggles others faced, but mine were different. I also gave auditions that never materialised not necessarily because I’m an outsider, but things didn’t work out at many levels.

Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don’t really mind if I don’t get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.

I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I’m constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible – it’s always new, and it’s always different. It’s always a work in progress.

I was going to a lot of auditions and doing interviews, and afterwards the comments were always about my lips.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, ‘I really want that one,’ and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

I’ve found during the times when I’ve gone through several rounds of auditions that they have really taken pains to consider me, and that makes an enormous difference.

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

I’m a working actress in Hollywood. You unfortunately don’t get the pick of the litter when it comes to auditions and jobs.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn’t interested. When I read A Knight’s Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they’re also very realistic, which is great.

I seriously suck at auditions.

When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

You’re going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you’re just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what’s challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever. I want to do different stuff, but I want it all to be just as good as this film. I want to be consistent.

I was recording dance tracks when the auditions for ‘Popstars: The Rivals’ came along.

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

At one time in my life, I stood in queues for ‘Indian Idol’ auditions, and I got eliminated at Top 8 or Top 9. I could have never imagined that one day I will be judging this show where I was a contestant myself.

I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the ‘Dangal’ offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

It’s not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

It’s so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

You can over-think things. If the script’s good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don’t learn things for auditions, because I feel like it’s just a test of memorising rather than being real.

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.

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.

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we’re all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we’re trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I’m confronted with on a daily basis.

I’m a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn’t know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

My dad was clear that it was important to start the journey from scratch and give auditions. I used to stand in long queues, where a hundred people would stand ahead of me… One thing I knew, that I must be focused on whatever I did. And that helped me to keep striving.

I do wear prescription glasses off screen, though I didn’t wear them to any of the auditions until the read-through.

There’s always very high tension with dance auditions! You’re in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you’ll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

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.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn’t feel like I was really good at acting. I didn’t feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

I do love children, but I don’t really talk about that in auditions.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you’ll have as an actor are when you’ll have three words to say.

But yeah, it’s funny because I used to talk so fast before ‘Gilmore Girls’ and it took me several years of auditioning and being comfortable in auditions to sort of take my time because I would just go into it and rush, rush, rush.

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

I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I’m just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.

Yes, there was a time when I failed to understand the system. I would go for auditions, but I wouldn’t get any parts. I wondered why this was happening.

I used to go along to the auditions for school plays but I never had the courage to actually audition. I wanted to sing though and was really into Elton John, Rod Stewart and Queen, so I eventually forced myself to sing at Brean Sands Holiday Park in Somerset when I was 14.