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Daily Inspiration Quote by Chris Hemsworth

"Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there"

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It is ambition spoken in the small, unglamorous grammar of work. Hemsworth isn’t performing certainty here; he’s performing stamina. “I’ll keep on auditioning” lands like a mantra for the anonymous years before the close-up: the repeated rejections, the roles you don’t get, the ones you do that barely pay, the public invisibility that defines most acting careers. The line is almost conspicuously modest, as if he’s careful not to jinx himself by sounding entitled.

The interesting move is the hedging: “one day maybe,” “try out.” That cautious phrasing carries a whole psychology of the industry. Hollywood runs on mythmaking, but entry is governed by gatekeepers and geography. “LA” functions as shorthand for the center of gravity, the place where a career becomes legible to power. He’s naming the pilgrimage without romanticizing it, reducing the dream to logistics: keep showing up, then relocate, then audition again.

Context matters because Hemsworth is now a global franchise face; read backward, the quote becomes a time capsule of pre-fame realism. It’s also a culturally familiar script for creative labor in the 2000s: hustle framed as humility, risk framed as “trying.” The subtext isn’t “I’m destined.” It’s “I’m willing.” And in an industry that sells inevitability after the fact, that’s the rare honest part.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hemsworth, Chris. (2026, January 16). Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-ill-keep-on-auditioning-and-one-day-maybe-118368/

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Hemsworth, Chris. "Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-ill-keep-on-auditioning-and-one-day-maybe-118368/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-ill-keep-on-auditioning-and-one-day-maybe-118368/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Chris Hemsworth (born August 11, 1983) is a Actor from Australia.

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