Will Poulter Quotes

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

I used to cry on the way to auditions.

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

You're always nervous about an audition.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

Acting is bloody scary.

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

There's always very high tension with dance auditions! You're in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you'll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep while Stephen Frears is filming you in front of hundreds of people is - well - psychotic.

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

When I was younger, my mother tried to get me an agent because I was always singing and dancing, but whenever she took me to an audition, I would just shut down.

I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.