James Ransone Quotes

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

I was approached by my agent, who said they were interested in me for 'Mr. Robot'. Then I binge-watched the show, and I was like, 'Uh, I would like this. Show me how I'm gonna fit in there, but yeah, I would love it.'

Initially, when I'd heard of 'Teen Wolf,' I had never actually sat down to watch the series. But during my audition process, before I had a clue that I would even be considered, I started watching the show to get a feel for it and to see what type of show it was.

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.

I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

For me, I love auditioning.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

I've always found that I have to audition, but that's a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and 'We're The Millers' was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

When I'm reading a script and I see the word 'lumbering' I go, 'Oh, that's probably the part they want me to read for.'