Quotes About Rejection

I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.

I have been trying to get theatre releases for short films ever since I have been making them. I didn't get any response from theatres initially.

No big Hindi film star wants to work with me. They are busy with their own dreams.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

It was not hip for people to like us, because their little sister liked us.

I've always despised the hippies.

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.

There'll probably be moments in my life where it seems that people will want to camp out on my doorstep, and moments when no one wants to hire me and couldn't be less interested. I've been around the circus, and it'll come and go.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

Hollywood is not easy.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

I am hated in my hometown.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

At 14 I went to Stuttgart academy and it was a big dream. But I felt lonely. It also got hard later. At 18 I hoped to play in the second team but the club said I was not strong enough.

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

As an audience, I must share that I was never a fan of a horror films.