There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it.
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.
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.
Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.
I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'
I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'
I have had so many bad auditions.