“If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."” IfsGoes OnAuditions Author:Evan Peters
“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.” LongHardJobsUsedCrazyGoes OnEasierLong TimeHundredQuestsAuditionsGalaxy Author:Missi Pyle
“I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.” NeedsStillsHardHard WorkGoes OnRejectionAuditions Author:Bojana Novakovic
“I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.” TryingDifferentPerfectProgressWeekMaterialsGoes OnPursuitCraftsAuditionsWork In ProgressHoning Author:Jake Busey
“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
“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.” YearsPersonsStillsSidesRoomsStageGoes OnDirectorsTenLunchAuditionsCastingSkipBest PersonCasting Directors Author:Carly Schroeder
“The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.” IfsFeelsBigsDifferencesAbilityNiceSeeingGoes OnFitRecognitionAuditionsTesting Author:Anna Chlumsky
“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsPlayKidsSchoolVoiceCommunityActingToo MuchIdentityThis WorldGoes OnLessonsProgramTheaterCrisisSevenAccessI RealizedAuditionsSeven YearsConsumingIdentity CrisisTime Consuming Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".” WorldWayLongSaidSelfSometimesDreamWould BeEyeCareWantedJobsPayCreativeGoes OnNeededTake CareBarsSufficientTomsConsistentlyAuditionsBe CreativeTelephonesCruiseSelf SufficientTuitionDreams Came True Author:Renee Zellweger
“I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.” YearsTwoDoneKidsWantedSchoolActingGoes OnMy FriendsPreparedExtrasTwo YearsAuditionsExtra Work Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."” IfsSaidHomeActingCollegeMomGoes OnPrivilegePrioritiesAuditionsAttending Author:Aldis Hodge
“Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some advancement in your career. But when you get out there, you don't realize how many auditions you have to go on before you actually get work.” WantActorsRealizingCareersProgressGoes OnAuditionsAdvancement Author:Mike Colter
“I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.” IfsThinkingKnowsActorsLinesComedyGoes OnGeniusTidesAuditionsTidy Author:Amy Poehler