Wagner Moura Quotes

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

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

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

I did, like, 30 or 40 commercials before 'Will & Grace' where I was the straight husband. I had two spots on the Super Bowl in 1998 where I was the straight dude.

My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't get. I ended up playing a part as one of the monkeys.

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know how good you could've been in that role.

I auditioned for 'The Lord of the Rings,' I auditioned for the part of Sam, and I didn't get very far… they wanted people that were taller and alter them in Computer Generated Images, so I never got a call back.

I remember the senior class play I was in. I was also in the musical, although I can't sing at all, but I wanted to be a part of it. Then I was modeling in Pittsburgh, so being in front of the camera was something I enjoyed and benefited from. I made money growing up by modeling locally.

I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.

I've always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned for a little production of The 'Wizard of Oz,' and I was like, 'Clearly I'm Dorothy!' And they were like, 'We'd like you to play the Wicked Witch.'

I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.

It is important to choose your director and co-stars well.

At castings for commercials, you end up being told to do ridiculous things, such as animal impersonations. You probably get one commercial for 20 utter humiliations.

I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

I normally go through every single line as part of my warm-up before a show. When I'm working on a film or TV programme, there often isn't a rehearsal, so I tend to learn my lines much later. They are often shorter, too, so they're essentially just there.

One of my dream roles would be to play a man.

I am open for all sorts of roles, be it hero or the antihero.