I still have to audition for most things.
When I was in Australia, I had three different agents in three different years, and I didn’t have one audition. They were good agents; I just never had one audition that was the right stuff.
If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I’m in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I’m still sweet to everyone, but I’m very much the character.
Whenever there used to be any audition in Chandigarh I would go for it.
My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.
I don’t think I’ll ever get to a place where I’m super kumbaya coming into an audition room.
I got in the audition line called ‘Making the Band’ because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn’t, I would have done ‘American Idol.’
I always say leave things at the door. Whether it’s at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don’t do what other people ask, do what you want!
‘Body of Proof’ was interesting because… I didn’t feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn’t over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
I think thats something that is frustrating – that you audition, and say you get a role and people think you were the best person to play this role, but it gets downplayed as being woke because, I dont know, they think networks are trying to tick a box.
People aren’t making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.
When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, ‘Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.’ So, you show up on set, and you don’t know, ‘Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?’
I got the pilot for ‘Scrubs’ sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said ‘a John McGinley type.’ So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who’s a dear friend of mine, I said, ‘Well, I’m John McGinley.’
The thing is, I knew from the very first audition that I did not fit the classic ‘X Factor’ criteria.
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
I never had trouble within the audition room. That is a room that I control. So while I certainly experienced versions of what Titus Andromedon was going through, I never experienced the self-doubt.
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
I don’t think people realize what it’s like for people of color to audition for film and TV.
I failed the audition to get into drama school.
I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, ‘He wants to have dinner with you.’ I said, ‘Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?’
‘Fresh’ was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.
I feel that being comfortable – being yourself – when you walk into an audition room is a really important thing. I think being able to own every aspect of your life is only going to make you be more comfortable in front of a table of people you don’t know.
I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
I’m super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. ‘In a World…’ was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, ‘Hey. Consider me!’
I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin’s inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of ‘yes and-ing’ applies to everything.
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, ‘Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days.
It’s always a great feeling when I have no regrets regarding an audition that I’ve done and I feel that way about my audition for Moe in ‘Trinkets.’
To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.
If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I’ll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I’m booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I’m always working on my craft.
I had a great career in Australia, so it was a hard decision to move to America. But in 2010, I was asked to audition for the part Melissa McCarthy ended up playing in ‘Bridesmaids.’
I’m afraid that I won’t do a good job when I go into an audition.
Usually, when you’re an actress, you have to audition 20 times.
I had an audition notice from my agent telling me the fake name of the part with a short description. I knew it was for The Walking Dead’ but had no idea of what the part would end up being.
When I auditioned for ’21 Jump Street,’ it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I’ve ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.
There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for ‘Bates Motel.’
As an actor, you do feel very powerless… you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.
A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call them up, and we can laugh about it because they get it. That’s always been a great therapeutic outlet.
It’s so ridiculous how you just get a call one day and go on an audition that can easily change your life for the next several years.
TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you’re lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.
I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!
In between shooting for ‘Awake,’ I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for ‘Anger Management’ actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we weren’t really letting any other shows into the mix.
‘Sparkle’ fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, ‘Oh, that would be really cool,’ and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.
