Daniela Ruah Quotes

I still have to audition for most things.

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

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 don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

I expect to play well.

You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.