Quotes About Rejection

When you're initially a heel, it's easier to be a heel. I'd rather people hate me than try to get them to love me.

There has never been a company that has wanted me, which sounds insane.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

If there's any actor who is saying we are not insecure, they are lying, because this job is an emotional one.

My mama didn't want me; my daddy wasn't there. So there were a lot of insecurities and low self-esteem.

Imagine being the kids that don't get the job - you're just not beautiful enough I'm afraid, my darling, now off you pop and be riddled with insecurities for the rest of your life.

I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.

There's certain artists who are loyal and certain ones don't really care and don't give you the opportunity to follow through with them again. I'm insulted by a lot of the artists I delivered hits to.

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

I see managers with my own eyes walking out of jobs and then walking into jobs, getting sacked and then walking back into another job... yet we can't even get an interview.

Not such a big guy now, are you?" she purred, smirking at me. "You're gonna die tonight because you couldn't keep it in your pants. I bet right about now you're wishing you would have picked me over that fanger." "Never," I whispered hoarsely, struggling to get the words out. "I'd rather have the month I had with Taylor than a lifetime with you." "You fucking asshole!

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

It's horrible when someone dumps you, especially when he's not your type.

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of personality to make anyone believe I had special talents. I wanted so desperately to succeed that I drove myself relentlessly, taking no time off for pleasures, or for friendships." - Jean Arthur

They rejected his novel concept of freedom of conscience

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.