Quotes About Rejection

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech. Suppose I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

He would be sad to learn that she had dismissed God long ago, as she would have dismissed an inept servant.

She opens her eyes, says: Stop lying. She says she hopes she'll never know anything, anything in the world, the way you do. She says: I don't want to know anything the way you do, with that death-derived certainty, that hopeless monotony, the same every day of your life, every night, and that deadly routine of lovelessness.

Grita que no hay que esperar nada, nunca, ni de ninguna persona, ni de ningún Estado ni de ningún Dios

He says, I have loved you since the first moment I saw you. I wanted you then, and when I thought you didn't want me, I turned my love into hate. Ethan... Before I say another word his mouth comes down over mine and he kisses me.

Let us go hence and rest; she will not love. She shall not hear us if we sing hereof, Nor see love's ways, how sore they are and steep. Come hence, let be, lie still; it is enough. Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep; And though she saw all heaven in flower above,              She would not love!

the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist." greasy fist." - Marilyn Manson

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all.