Henry Rollins Quotes

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

I hate auditions.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.