Quotes About Rejection

I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

I don't wish to be a part of 'Bigg Boss.' People only fight on that show; whenever you put on that show, you hear people fighting.

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

I did an audition for Henry Hall, a well-known dance man at the BBC, when I was about 15. I have lost the letter I was sent, but it said: 'your voice is unsuitable for broadcasting.'

Filmmakers would compliment my work, but when casting for a heroine, they'd never think of me.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

I didn't leave the 49ers, I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.

I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.

Would it not be better to reject it altogether if it not be fit to be believed heart and soul?

be.—I had been refused a few months before

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so ...

Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.