Xavier Samuel Quotes

I still have to audition for most things.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

Luckily, I have great agents who are sending me out for great stuff.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

I've been on over 1000 auditions.

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.

When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'