Kelly Rowan Quotes

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

I was shooting for 'Maaya' when I got a call from John Abraham's office. They told me about the film and asked if I could audition. But since I was shooting, I recorded my audition and sent them the tapes. The next thing I know, I was on board.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

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

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'

'Hotel For Dogs' was fun for my family, but it was kind of hard to get in the audition room for 'Jennifer's Body' after that, you know? But I think the roles find me, in a way.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.