It can be hard to cope with a series of rejections at acting auditions. However difficult it may feel at the time, you should never let rejection affect your hunger for work, or for further auditions. You have to remember that if you don’t get offered the part, it is probably because the part isn’t right for you.
It is important to keep putting yourself up for auditions, whether you aim to be on TV as a soap star or simply get an extras part in theatre auditions. It may be that you need to find new material to perform, or to perform your existing audition pieces in new and challenging ways. Always remember that if you have talent, you will find an outlet for that talent if you persevere. In the process, you may discover creative resources in yourself that you didn’t know you had.
The great American actor Montgomery Clift, whose career was effectively blighted by a car accident, once said ‘Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.’ When he said ‘artist’, he might as well have said ‘actor.’ If you are going through a period when the work doesn’t seem to be coming your way, then you would do well to bear Clift’s words in mind and grow determined or use these new found emotions in audition pieces.
Here at Audition Now, we offer a comprehensive acting auditions information service direct to your mobile phone. We also offer access to career guidance and support. This means that you have regular opportunities to promote your talent, and the security of knowing that all the latest work opportunities will be brought to you.
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