Baz Luhrmann Quotes

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

Meeting with the director is an audition.

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

I still have to audition for most things.

You audition, and then you go and do what's called a test, your network test. So you have to go in front of the network and do it, and the network has to sign off on you.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.

The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would see, over and over again, that there wasn't just one actor for the role. It was really clear that there were a lot of people who could play a character really well, and it would always come down to something kind of weird and non-obvious as to why a person was cast. If you're not right, you're not right, but that's okay.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

Auditioning is always so different for different things.

I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it.

I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.

There are so many people who come to me to be an actor, but I select only those people who I feel can fit my script. If they do, I immediately say yes. I don't do screen tests. I talk to them and see how their mind functions. I read their mind and cast them.

I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

I was approached by my agent, who said they were interested in me for 'Mr. Robot'. Then I binge-watched the show, and I was like, 'Uh, I would like this. Show me how I'm gonna fit in there, but yeah, I would love it.'