I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
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've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.
If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.
I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.
One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
I have had so many bad auditions.
I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.
A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.
I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. So once it got to there and I also knew more about the business and I thought, "I can't do this anymore."
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
