Cameron Britton Quotes

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've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it.

I have had to give auditions for every film I had done until 'Dedh Ishqiya.'

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act, act. Get into that production of 'The Three Sisters' in a church basement. Consider every audition a chance to act, even if it's just for three minutes. Just do it whenever and wherever you can.'

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

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.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.