“My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.” WantActorsWaitingStepsProduceSonDirectAuditions Author:Elizabeth Perkins
“If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.” IfsIdeasAmericaTurnsActorsOpinionNo IdeaAuditions Author:Eddie Redmayne
“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.” ActorsRadioAuditionsSydney Author:Rod Taylor
“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.” TryingChildrenTwoWantedActorsBitsHalfRolesCryMomMy MomConvincedNervousRanCuteAuditionsSkepticalInterruptedBossyChild Actors Author:Mae Whitman
“I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.” YearsLittlesActorsTvsTenTheaterMagazinesPhrasesReportersAuditions Author:Eric McCormack
“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.” IfsSelfSometimesHandsGuyThreeActorsCasesPiecesDirectorsConsciousStartingImpressionSuitsAuditionsSelf ConsciousPomposity Author:Charles Kimbrough
“Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition for that and I couldn't believe that I'd been acting with him. I've worked with amazing people, but my friends freak out that I'm working with him. I freak out in a geeky acting way. They freak out in a starstruck way. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fame is so big. That's a complete tangent about that.” PeopleWayBelieveBigsActorsActingPlanetsCoupleFameMy FriendsIncrediblesFreakAuditionsLeonardoAmazing People Author:Carey Mulligan
“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.” IfsActorsAsksFiveAuditionsReally Happy Author:Bill Nighy
“My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.” WantYearsWantedYoungActorsFiveMomYears AgoTheaterMy MomFive YearsAuditions Author:Angelina Jolie
“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.” YearsFirstsShowsRememberNextActorsSuccessfulFocusExampleTvsMusicianVersionsPilotsTapeTv ShowsAuditionsDemosFamous MusicianFamous Actor Author:Derek Sivers
“Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.” ThreeActorsAuditionsThree Words Author:Stephen Amell
“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.” WantChildrenEndsShowsBigsSongGirlActorsMemoriesStageDadTerribleDirectorsSingingWestMy DadFolksShow MeAuditionsDonkeyQueuesChild ActorsFolk SongsWest End Author:Emilia Clarke
“When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.” AbleActorsLevelsTrainFinishedAuditions Author:Ben Whishaw
“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.” IfsGivingRealityYoungActorsResultsAdvicePercentScriptsAuditionsScrapYoung Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
“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.” IfsUsedActorsActingClassMonthsCoupleDirectorsEaseBest ThingsInsecurityAuditionsActing Classes Author:Albert Brooks
“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.” FeelsPlayShowsActorsEasySimpleWalksDoubtNew YorkSceneHollywoodNervousAuditionsAdjustmentIntimidatedDoubting Yourself Author:Ben Feldman
“I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.” IfsPlayHateActorsHonestColdI HateEnvyNervousBeing HonestAuditionsCold Blooded Author:Daniel Bruhl
“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.” IfsWantFirstsSaidJobsMotherActorsFatherRejectionInstructionAuditions Author:Michele Lee
“After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.” YearsThreeActorsGoes OnGutsThree YearsAuditions Author:Gale Harold
“When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.” ThinkingWantActorsAuditions Author:Lauren Cohan
“I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.” IfsWantProblemSchoolActorsLeftHugeHatedCanadaAuditions Author:Brad Goreski
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.” IdeasBigsActorsWalksRoomsTelevisionBuildingOfficeNo IdeaSmarterAuditionsOffice Buildings Author:Kurt Fuller
“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?” ThinkingWantNeedsI CanActorsStuffWaitingHollywoodPhonesAuditionsProactive Author:Ice Cube