The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.
Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.
I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.
I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.
Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.
I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.
If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.
When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.
I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.
That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?
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 werent really letting any other shows into the mix.
I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.
Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.
Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.
I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.
