Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

I have had so many bad auditions.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

I love my job - I'm going to keep doing it until I die - but there's nothing more soul-destroying than having to cancel a show.

Auditioning sucks!

It's frustrating not to play well.

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.