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!
One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.
People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
I never really decided to be an actress, but I got an agent, was called back on every show I auditioned for, and finally decided I was meant to be an actress.
Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
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 used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I was terrified, but I went and did it.
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.
Every audition, I walk out the door and throw the sides away immediately. You did it, now go home. And to me, that's kind of a baptism. If they call you, they call you. And if they don't, it's fine.
I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
