Yes, there was a time when I failed to understand the system. I would go for auditions, but I wouldn't get any parts. I wondered why this was happening.
I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'
It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.
I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.
I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.
I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.
It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.
Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.
It's weird what a last name will do. I changed it to 'Milian,' and next thing you know, I was working and getting auditions and stuff, and it was crazy.
I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.
The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.
I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.
At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.
I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do it.'
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.
You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
I've got a lot of friends who are actors so even when I don't have auditions of my own, I'll be working on someone else's scenes with them.
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.
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.
My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.
Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page.
If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.
I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life
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.
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.
No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
I started getting a lot of work once I came to Mumbai. I was working with some of the biggest ad filmmakers. But I had to give auditions.
One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.
I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.
Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.
When I was sent the material for auditions for 'Dramaworld,' I didn't know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.
With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I'm just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.
I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.
As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.
Both 'Dear Zindagi' and 'Hichki' did not come easily to me, I had to do multiple rounds of auditions.
Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
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