Craig Sheffer Quotes

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

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

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

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

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.