Adam Pally Quotes

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it.

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.

Bryan Cranston's advice to actors, it's my favorite thing, and it changed my life. He said: Don't go into an audition to get the job, go to share your work. That was so liberating. You read it, interpret it, embody it the way you want to play that person and embody them with your whole heart and soul for those 20 minutes.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

I never turn on the crowd. Sometimes, you think it's a terrible show, and then afterward, sometimes people say they really liked it. So turning on the crowd is only going to alienate the few people who might like it. What do I do in that situation? Get through it.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

A bad audition is usually the director's fault, not the actor's. It's up to the director to get the atmosphere right to get the best out of your auditionees.

I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it's an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.

I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.'

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.