Top 395 Audition Quotes

I’d say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I’ll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don’t watch my videos, and they don’t really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood.

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It’s out of your hands. So often, it’s not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.

I was a dance instructor and during a musical show Ekta Ma’am had spotted me. I got a call from her then and without any audition, I was directly called for the screen test.

I did an episode of ‘Entourage.’ I played Morgan – I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: ‘Honey, you’ve got an audition today. Keep your feet on the ground, O.K.?’

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

You can never fight for a part or can’t beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works.

Two days before I got the audition for ‘Extras,’ I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, ‘No, wait and see what else comes in.’ Lo and behold, along came ‘Extras.’ Now that was lucky!

Every project I got, whether I was playing a friend or doing television, I just wanted to prove myself: every single take, cue, and rehearsal is an audition. That’s my approach.

You audition, and then you go and do what’s called a test, your network test. So you have to go in front of the network and do it, and the network has to sign off on you.

First and foremost, at drama school it gets drilled into you that you say yes to anything. If they say, can you tap-dance with a monkey on your head in your audition, you say yes.

Every audition, I walk out the door and throw the sides away immediately. You did it, now go home. And to me, that’s kind of a baptism. If they call you, they call you. And if they don’t, it’s fine.

It’s always been a dream to audition for ‘American Idol.’ But you have to be 15 or older.

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.

My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and got an audition. They said I was in, so I burst into tears, because in those days I cried when I was happy and I cried when I was sad.

I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I’m not right for a part, and really fight for it. There’s something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, ‘Haven’t they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like… They must.’ Until I directed an episode of ‘Roswell.’ And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

‘Cheers’ was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

Me, Jesy and Jade were all told at our first audition that they could see us in a girl group. All of us were a little bit disappointed because they thought we weren’t good enough on our own.

I think I heard about ‘The Giver’ being made from when I was 11 or 12 years old. When I got the audition for this movie, I already knew that Meryl Streep was attached to it, and Jeff Bridges, obviously.

The most important thing any person can focus on, whether in a first audition or a first job, is to be the best you can be. The rest will take care of itself.

I’m never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every breath that they’re saying. And you’re used to that. So you go in, and you’re like, ‘Oh, whatever.’

The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.

I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group of friends who wanted to make it big in films, and that’s when the audition for ‘Malarvady Arts Club’ happened. I got selected, and it opened the doors to my dream world.

There’ve been times where, like when I auditioned for ‘Akeelah,’ I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, ‘Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I’m just a newcomer,’ and this and that.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, ‘Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I’ve seen you on TMZ.’ Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Corin Nemec, who was on television for years, has been through a similar thing. We both had TV shows, we’ve had to hit that audition trail, and we were both frustrated. We were both going through divorces, and we decided to write about this stuff. And make it funny.

However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.

As evidenced during my failed audition, I’m a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a ‘Real World’ house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

I think, so often, people go quick to that nepotism: ‘I should be OK; my cousin’s a producer. I can get into the movie.’ How about audition, earn the part, and feel confident in knowing that the director felt you were the right person for the job versus hiring you because you know somebody?

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren’t actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.

As an actor, you have to try to put it in your mind that you audition for a role, and then once you send that tape off, its not yours.

Sometimes in an audition, I’ll genuinely do something I know they’re not going to like.

I didn’t want to land an audition because I was ‘The daughter of…’ I never wanted to give anyone the opportunity to say, ‘You only got the role because of who you are.’

It’s weird, but I don’t feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There’s really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I didn’t know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl in the book.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: ‘Someone has to succeed. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be me.’ Repeat before every audition.

I’d been wanting to audition for the Raiderettes for a while. The irony is that I didn’t have time when I was in law school, but as a practicing attorney I did. I’ve been dancing since I was 3, so it’s natural to want that part of my life, the love of performing, satisfied.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for ‘The Girl in the Cafe,’ as I’d worked with everyone in the room on ‘State Of Play.’

I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn’t get the role.

When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here’s an audition; there’s an audition. And before you know it, you’re where you’re supposed to be. And that was Second City.

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?