Alex Sharp Quotes

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

You never get every job you want.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right for the part, but nahh, you're not quite what we're looking for.'

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.