Lee Unkrich Quotes

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 auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

I still have to audition for most things.

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

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

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

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.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

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

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

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

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.