Quotes About Rejection

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn't go under and start becoming all convoluted in my head. That can happen, if you're a serious actor and you're here to really be a part of cinema, and when cinema ignores you, it can be devastating.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

I was really ill growing up as my body was rejecting everything.

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.

In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl or the guy, and there has to be someone to play that.

Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off.

When you're in the process of becoming an actor, you think that you just need to get that one film. But once you get that one film, the stress increases.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

To have refused love is very much more picturesque than not to have been offered it.

Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.

I've got an awful lot of unpublished stuff lying around, but at my age, it's hard to go to auditions and rehearsals and all the rest. Besides, you get frightened. You can stand success, but you're afraid of failure.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

Wretched girl- you are not ready to accept love. Yes, I am love itself and I cannot live where I am not believed. Farewell...

Don't be a fool. Go lose your head over some other girl. I'm not for you.

A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.