Anthony Carrigan Quotes

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

With pilot season, you have to jump through so many hoops, there are so many people in the room, you end up doing four or five auditions. You're just quaking by the end of it.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

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 love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

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

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

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

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.