Quotes About Persistence

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

I had my share of rejections.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.

I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

Don't take rejection personally.

As an entrepreneur, you're going to get 100 rejections and one yes. That one yes will give you enough and more kick in life to continue and remain motivated.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

Just coming to L.A. to be a comic and an actor, it's not the kindest world to come to. There's a lot of rejection, which I'm not used to. I hate rejection, but it's about 90 percent of the business.