Audie Murphy was a movie star in the 1950’s and was 1.65 metres tall or 5 foot 4.

Kiefer Sutherland is 1.75 metres tall or 5 foot 7. Lucy Liu: 5 foot 2, Rachel McAdam: 5 foot 3, Catherine Deneuve: 5 foot 5, Reese Witherspoon: 5 foot 1, and Tom Cruise: 5 foot 5. 

On the other hand ...

The audition you do at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning is the best audition you can do at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

If you could have done better you would have. 

There’s no need to set yourself up for constant regret. You’re already in the business of auditioning and acting in ...

When you prepare your audition put your energy into the acting.

Under pressure you can wish that by dressing perfectly you’ll get the part. And that includes – both literally and figuratively – your socks.

How you dress, your hair, are all important. Make the decisions based on the show and the scene …

No actor ever got cast in a movie because they recited their lines correctly.

You get cast in a movie if your acting is good enough and if you look and sound the way the producers and director want.

All actors learn their lines. It’s kind of the first thing we set out to do.

In an audition the key is to show yourself doing something. Don’t get …

Your audition sides may call for you to kiss, kick or kill. 

What’s the best question to pose? Is it, ‘How can I show that?’ or is it, ‘How can I use that?’.

You never have to show the producers that you know what is written in a scene. You won’t get cast for doing that. If a tiger appears before you in the scene you don’t have to make sure the producers know that you know it’s a tiger.

They want to see you …

When the audition ends and they stick up their thumbs and say: ‘Good job, great, perfect’ it doesn’t mean you got the part.

It mostly just means, ‘Thank-you’.

An audition is only the middle with no beginning or end …

You have multiple characters in your scenes for your audition.

What to do?

You never need to show the producers that you know there are multiple characters in the scene.

But you may want to place them in different ...

Asking your agent for feedback after an audition sounds like a good idea.

But does the feedback assist you, or does it make you self-conscious? Everyone may be doing it but does it help you. 

If it helps you, then great.

Before you ask for feedback some questions are worth asking, such as ...

That question is a bit like how many fairies can dance on the head of a pin.

Actors want to debate the question ‘Should I go into the audition in character or just as me?’

It’s a non-discussion.

These propositions are irrational, so try ...