Quotes About Rejection

My mother went through a phase in her life where she... stopped being queer for religious reasons. I remember, my mother rebuking her sexuality... Queerness was not okay. She basically just said it wasn't okay for her... This is what, in my experience, religion can do to a queer person.

I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn't get the role.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

It doesn't make a difference to anybody if I accept or quit a film.

If I want to be a basketball player and you don't draft me, what am I going to do, quit, or keep going? Knock on the next door, knock on the next door, if one of those open I'm going to go in and display my talent.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

I was labelled a jinx. No one wanted to work with me. I was home for about six to eight months without any films. I did modeling. In fact, at one point, I contemplated quitting films. That's when director Ameer called me for 'Paruthiveeran' and I cannot thank him enough for it.

I understand that a lot of people can't connect with my music, because it's a radical proposal and a personal proposal. There will be people who can connect with it, and many that can't.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

I don't do game shows.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.