Christie Laing Quotes

I never mind going in for an audition for something.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

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'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'