Jack Reynor Quotes

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

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

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 did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

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

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.

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

I, like almost every actor in the world, auditioned for 'Friends.' I wish I had gotten that one. I actually auditioned for Rachel and didn't go very far.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.

Within my second month of being in L.A., I booked my first audition. It was, like, a co-star on a show called 'Gang Related.' I got cut out of it.

A lot of people ask me, when I mention I'm from Australia, that I must have been on 'Home And Away,' and I tell them was one of the few who didn't take that route. That's because I auditioned for 'Home And Away,' and I didn't get booked, so you'd call that a knock back.

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

Eventually, it slowly built up, a small job to a slightly bigger job to a slightly bigger job to the third season of NBC's 'This is Us.'

When I was 13, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film roles. I booked shows like 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' 'Liv and Maddie,' and 'Teen Wolf.'

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

Before my big break in 'MADtv,' I was doing a lot of commercial work.

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

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.