Chloe Kohanski Quotes

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'

I like 'American Idol' because it's an actual talent contest.

'The X Factor' saved me.

I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.

It's always been a dream to audition for 'American Idol.' But you have to be 15 or older.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me... And he basically outlined 'American Horror Story' for me and said that there's a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I'd like you to play it.

I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.

I've been watching 'American Idol' since I was five years old.

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!

I've been watching 'American Idol' half my life, and I wanted to audition since I was 8.

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.

Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

When I was 14, I auditioned for Michael Barrymore's 'My Kind Of People'.

When everybody starts out in the process of 'The Voice,' you do think about the people who have won or that have made it to the finale and what happens.

I have myself been on the other side of the table being a participant of a singing talent hunt. Hence, it is weird but awesome at the same time to judge a pool of talent that our nation has.