“I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling a...” — Sanaa Lathan Quote

“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.”

“I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.”

“If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.”

“I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.”

“I've never given a bad audition in my life.”

“There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.'”