Quotes About Rejection

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.

I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.

I don't really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I'm walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I thought it would be nice to sit in with Timothy B. Schmit and sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but they pretty much gave me a 'no' in a roundabout way. I can't blame them. They have to keep their band the way it is.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

I've always loved blocking shots.

Like, if you don't want to talk to me it's your loss, and basically I'm a big deal so you should be bloody lucky to be talking to me.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

Bollywood didn't know what to do with me. And I didn't know what to do with it, because I didn't want to do its kind of films.

I'm not doing Bond.

I don't need their love. If they want to boo, let them boo.

Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.

I get bored in Hollywood.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.