Bradley Walsh Quotes

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.

I got 'Aurangzeb' because I gave an audition and passed it.

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

For me, I love auditioning.

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it's almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don't know what's going to happen.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

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

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.