Andy Dick Quotes

With 'American Idol,' you are on your toes a lot. People don't realize the amount of work.

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

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

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I still have to audition for most things.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

As a musician-turned-actor, you ordinarily face one of two scenarios. Either all the pressure of success or failure is on your shoulders, so if the picture does poorly, you might never get another movie role, or you have a situation where you already have an anchor, which allows you to work your way up the ranks.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time - when they were playing stadiums all over the world - it was very wearing.

It happens in the West most of the time - the biggest of stars, they audition. That's how it should happen.

I didn't get an agent until after 'Last Comic Standing' - of course, getting on a show like that will get you attention.

We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.

It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.

When 'Director's Kut' called me and asked to come for an audition, I went for it but there was no response for a couple of days. Then I got a chance to meet Rajan Shahi and discuss the character. I liked Pammi the moment I heard about the character.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

I would consider doing something along the lines of 'Tough Enough' because that was my first endeavor into reality television, and that is a world I know and love, and that's why I was on that show.

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

Doing eight shows a week is hard.

In hindsight, my darkest time came when I was an idol trainee. My future was uncertain and I always had to ask myself, 'Will I be able to debut?' It was physically and mentally exhausting sometimes.

Within my second month of being in L.A., I booked my first audition. It was, like, a co-star on a show called 'Gang Related.' I got cut out of it.

The pressure has increased; I have to practise more and keep performing better.