Quotes About Rejection

You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I wasn't picked for the improv group in college - not because I wasn't good, but because I was told I didn't fit the group, didn't gel with their dynamic.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

I went for officer training to be a fighter pilot, but never got past the aptitude test. So I decided to put on makeup and ponce about in front of a camera.

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic, sound-bite-spewing sewage rats that surround them can stuff it. They are the wrong stuff, and their self-glorification is an obscenity. No matter what they say of themselves, they are not that important.

Actors are used to staring at the walls waiting for the phone to ring. It's not unchartered territory for us.