Quotes About Rejection

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

short, I could do the work, but no one liked me.

The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life.

Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I don't feel anything but rage for the person who gave me a secret I didn't want.

It seems natural to define the world around what is sought after, but geopolitics can also be considered in terms of what is not wanted.

I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

He was like that child who always wants to join in the others' games, but wants it too badly, so that the other children wonder why they don't already have friends of their own, and end up even less likely to invite them in.

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

I used to audition for all those Disney Channel shows, and I was always told that I had the leading-lady personality but was too developed and too curvy.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'Capote.'

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.

I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of my phone calls.

I think when I left WWE, Vince blocked my phone number so he never wants me calling him again.

The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.