Andrew Rannells Quotes

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

The rule was, the kids in this agency had to do 15 commercials or something before they sent them out on a theatrical audition, for a television show. And I had only done two commercials.

I didn't get an agent until after 'Last Comic Standing' - of course, getting on a show like that will get you attention.

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.

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

There are so many good actors who just keep waiting for good opportunities.

I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.

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 just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

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 went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'

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 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.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

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.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

I still have to audition for most things.

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.

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.