Quotes About Rejection

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

No means maybe in real estate.

I get really sad when people say, 'I'm no good. I haven't been cast in a pilot.' It doesn't mean you're not good; it just means someone hasn't seen you yet. It doesn't mean that in real life you're not the greatest actor.

I never said I wanted to leave Real Madrid. I never wanted that, but you have to move when they don't want you.

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

You have to be realistic. Not everyone is going to like you, so you have to focus on the ones who do.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

I won't eat anything green.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

Part of me feels it's better we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

I never want to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.