I didn't really know what I wanted to do and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help not even Mom's.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Every time you have to speak you are auditioning for leadership.

I never doubted that I would work and every time I went to an audition I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100 I didn't.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing you're sitting home and wondering 'What am I doing?'

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually just as we monitor money and GDP.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.