Quote • KATHLEEN TURNER • Auditions

Turner in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Mead Center for American Theater in 2014. Photo: Teresa Wood

What’s your best advice for auditions? Be brave, risk it. What I tell my students is, if you go through an audition and they say, ‘No, but thank you very much’, have the guts to say, ‘Can you tell me what you’re looking for and let me try that?’ Half the time they might not like that they’re being questioned but the other half they might say: ‘We thought you were too soft, now let’s see it more hardcore.’ If you’re going to get told no, you are going to get a no anyway.

via Kathleen Turner: ‘I started out a star, so Hollywood had no leverage over me’ — read the full interview