Stephanie Corneliussen Quotes

I've done a couple of castings... I've done an audition for 'The Hobbit.'

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

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

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.

I don't get offered many comedies.

I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

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 would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.'

Like any other aspirational actor, I wanted to be a part of films.

I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great role to play in a film.

Waiting is always a part of people involved in the film industry. Be it on the floor, in the make-up room or at home. All my life I have waited for a good role.

I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.