Brie Larson Quotes

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

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

I have had so many bad auditions.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

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

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

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

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.