Alexandra Chando Quotes

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

I got rejected from all the good drama schools first time.

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

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

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

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

You never get every job you want.

I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

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

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Auditioning sucks!

Things don't always work out as you want them to.