Ednita Nazario Quotes

I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

For me, I love auditioning.

My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.