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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.
During the screen test for 'Red Widow' was the first time anyone ever told me that I was good at auditioning.
I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.
I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
Auditioning is a completely terrifying beast. It's not your work that matters, it's if you can sell yourself in that room.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.
There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
I didn't want to act in high school, because I was sick of auditioning for Nickelodeon, Disney mean girls, or the cheerleader.
I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what I can do.
I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.
The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.
I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.
I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.
I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.
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 do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.
When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
I was like, 'Whoa, I'm auditioning for 'Hunger Games?' That's like my dream come true. That's like a Trekkie auditioning for 'Star Trek.'
I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving college the old college try.
Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.
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.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.
For the auditioning process, I love to move my body around, maybe dance a little bit, get myself in a really loose place where I'm free to play.
I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.
I moved to L.A. straight out of graduating my arts high school and worked three jobs to afford living while taking acting classes and auditioning often.
I'm not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles. And now, I feel boxed in.
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.