Kelly Reilly Quotes

I still have to audition for most things.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

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?

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

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

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

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

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

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

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

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.