I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'.
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.
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.
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.
I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.
I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .
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.
You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.
I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!
People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.
[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time. It's about who fits that particular suit, you know?
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
