Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Chris Colfer

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

Bill Nighy

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

Nia Long

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Bel Powley

A lot of the auditions in L.A. do feel like cattle calls, with hundreds of people. I started to lose sight of what I wanted, because you get so desperate for a job that you stop caring whether it's a good script. You're just pleased to be testing for something - but then if you get it, you're doing it for potentially six years, so it's a lottery.

Craig Sheffer

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

Sela Ward

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

Darren Boyd

Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

Kathy Campbell

I've looked at our membership list recently. And we have had over 120 people come to our auditions over the years.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

David Parrish

When we got down to a short list between the bidders, the price was similar but not identical,

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Carol Carter

We're running out of people on our list. A lot of people on our list did not return applications. We'd love to have more people; just give us a call.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Michael Ovitz

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

Trevor Pryce

Absolutely, I think we've always looked at him that way,

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members, ... The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Jim Repace

The membership has had a lot of questions on how this buyout may work.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.