Marianne Elliott Quotes

I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

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

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I still have to audition for most things.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

I've had so many bad auditions! I tell people all the time, there's differences, what makes an audition good or what makes an audition bad. Sometimes you're just off, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

I've never given a bad audition in my life.

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.