Acting Auditions Quotes

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

Finally, I was called for "The Office" and I was really lucky, because a lot of the shows that I went out for I would work my way up from, like, an audition with the casting director to the director to the producers to the studio, I'd go through seven auditions, and then they'd give the role to a famous actress.

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.

I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped studying. There's an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.

One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing - well, one of them sings but she's got some ways to go. I love her acting. I'm actually trying to put her in some classes and everything so she can learn the art of acting. I don't want her to get no parts because her dad is Ginuwine. I want her to earn it.

I had never imagined that after coming to Mumbai that, as an actor, my dates would be booked in six-eight months in advance.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I want to be an actress when I grow up. Actually, I don't want to wait until I'm grown up. I want to be a child actress. I want to be an actress before I'm 13.

You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.