Ed Stoppard Quotes

I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

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?

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does 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.

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

I used to cry on the way to auditions.

We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

You're always nervous about an audition.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

Auditioning is the worst.

I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

There's always very high tension with dance auditions! You're in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you'll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.