Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes

I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

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

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

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

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

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

I still have to audition for most things.

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.