"Well, we'd had our ups and downs, sure, and I should imagine I was very hard to live with …" It was while auditioning as host for a TV show about mediums that he first understood his marriage might be in trouble.
With the Australian film industry decamped on the other side of the country, auditioning is tough.
The director explained that the character I was auditioning for would be hit over the head with an oar, after which he would be rolled off a jetty into the water.
One minute she is theorising earnestly about the difference between Germany and Britain's postwar traumas, the next she is giggling as if she's just caught herself auditioning for Pseuds Corner: "I wonder what status being the victor gives to the trauma.
Newman's path to fame took in a meeting with a management agent who was auditioning members for a boyband that would eventually become the Wanted.
Ironically, the large and diverse cast initially put some actors off auditioning.
In a return to the early years of talent shows, contestants will initially perform only in front of the judges instead of auditioning before a sell-out stadium crowd.
Yet that is the role he is auditioning for.
Ben Jonson will appear a line after a popular instant coffee blend has been mentioned, Dante will be found next to a mime artist, Marcel Marceau, and Lawes himself figures auditioning for Ronnie Scott.
Edwards solidified his appeal among Democrats and created excitement wherever he went, without looking as if he were shamelessly auditioning for the No. 2 post.On to McAuliffe, who deserves the longest victory lap of all three.
For just as Mr Romney is auditioning for a non-fictional role as president, so Boris is trying out for the part of prime minister.
