I remember my mom saying, 'I will take you to every audition, I will support you, but the minute you stop caring about it, I will stop.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.
When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.
Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.'