Quotes About Rejection

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

I never thought that 'Grease' would be a smash. I turned it down at first.

I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I was still playing for Gravesend at 18 and it seemed that every other kid had been snapped up except me.

Getting on 'SNL' wasn't just about getting cast. I had written all this stuff in my audition, and I wrote several things that got on the air. But to me, I've never been interested in being picked. So when I do get sent things, most of the time I do pass on them because it doesn't feel like it would be fulfilling.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.