Quotes About Rejection

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.

As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him