Quotes About Rejection

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.

I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.