Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'

I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

Six months after I moved to L.A., I booked the ABC pilot 'Commander-in-Chief' with Geena Davis. I played her son.

Breaking Bad' gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine - I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

I sent some scenes from 'Life on Mars'... and then I didn't hear anything for about 48 hours, and I was sure that I wouldn't get this. Then I got a phone call saying, 'They want you to take the role of Jim Shannon on 'Terra Nova,' and would I be interested!

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.

Within my second month of being in L.A., I booked my first audition. It was, like, a co-star on a show called 'Gang Related.' I got cut out of it.

I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I was so lucky and blessed to have gotten 'White Chicks' so early into my career.

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

It doesn't hurt to be in 'Game of Thrones,' that's for sure, mainly because people actually see your work, and that is great.

The first time I ever actually had a line was on 'A Different World', my best friend Cree Summer's show. I was in L.A. visiting her, and she said, 'Hey, there's a walk-on part, why don't you audition for it?'

I, like almost every actor in the world, auditioned for 'Friends.' I wish I had gotten that one. I actually auditioned for Rachel and didn't go very far.

For 'Supergirl,' I actually didn't audition.

I went on an audition. I walked in the room, and it was Leslie Mann with Judd Apatow. It was intimidating.

I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited.

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.