If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
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 haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.
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.
The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.