Brenton Thwaites Quotes

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

I still have to audition for most things.

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

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

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

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

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.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

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.

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.

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

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

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

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

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

I never mind going in for an audition for something.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

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.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

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

Though sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't get the kind of roles you should get, but sometimes you get the role.

I auditioned several times before I got the part in 'Shuddh Desi Romance.'

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!