Nathan Parsons Quotes

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

Acting is a life of rejection.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

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.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

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

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.