Acting Competition Quotes

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

I was on 'Junior Star Search' when I was 10 years old, in the acting category. The adult version of 'Star Search' didn't have an acting category, but for the kids, they had an acting category. It was the strangest thing. It was full blown 1980s, with big hair, mullets, and the whole deal.

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.

I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

Really good leading roles are few and far between, and there is so much competition because there are so many fantastic actresses in this country.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

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 ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Theatre is very cutthroat, especially here in New York!

It may seem that with the new breed of actors - Arjun, Varun, Siddharth, Ayushmann, Sushant - there is suddenly too much of a hustle to make space for oneself, but acting is subjective. And we motivate one another.

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.