Olivia Newton-John Quotes

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.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

I'm a working actress in Hollywood. You unfortunately don't get the pick of the litter when it comes to auditions and jobs.

It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

You have to know that 99% of auditions you're not going to get.

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!

I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can.

Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you do, you can achieve success. That isn't always the case in this business. Every actor knows that.

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.