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“Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?”

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Source: The Adults

“No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok.”

Drama Driving Auditions License Muffins Wendy Mass

Book:Leap Day

Source: Leap Day

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).”

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Book:Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul”

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Book:A Very Punchable Face

Source: A Very Punchable Face

“My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.”

Firsts Done Worst Auditions

Author:Isabel Lucas

“I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

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Author:Matt Letscher

“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.”

Has Beens Song Piano Auditions

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.”

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Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.”

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Author:Julia Ormond

“If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."”

Ifs Goes On Auditions

Author:Evan Peters

“When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Perkins

“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.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“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.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“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.”

“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.”

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Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.”

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Author:Sarah Sutton

“Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.”

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Author:Shannyn Sossamon

“I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.”

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Author:Rachael Taylor

“So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.”

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Author:Rod Taylor

“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.”

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Author:Dominic West

“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.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”

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Author:Thomas Howes

“I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.”

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Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.”

Used Thrown Auditions

Author:Alex Meraz

“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.”

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Author:Janet McTeer

“I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.”

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Author:Lauren Miller

“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.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.”

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Author:Teddy Sears

“I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.”

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Author:Dawn French

“I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.”

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Author:Jennifer Damiano

“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.”

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Author:Charles Kimbrough

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