Quentin Tarantino Quotes

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

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

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I've never given a bad audition in my life.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Any time you get to play or dress differently or look differently, as an actress, that's incredibly exciting.

I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

I never mind going in for an audition for something.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

It'd been about four months since shooting 'Power Rangers,' and 'Stranger Things' was the first thing I saw that made me think, 'I need this.' I had one day to get my act together, so I made a short film rather than a self-tape. It had an opening score, opening titles, and I may or may not have put on a g-string and danced to 'Hungry Like a Wolf.'

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

When acting, I can wear another person's clothes and act out the attractiveness of a particular character, which is very interesting for me. Singing is something I love as well.