Quotes About Rejection

I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV.

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

But being in love - or actually just chasing boys who don't like me as much as I like them - for me is the ultimate thing.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.

It's not like I'm going to be the new tele chef or anything, I don't want that at all.

With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

Everyone's asking if I've been offered a superhero movie, and no, I definitely have not.

I was a writer. I couldn't sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They'd all say to me, 'The average man won't understand it.' You know, they're superior to the average man.

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

There were people who supported me but there were even more who denied me opportunities.

Wrestling is how I made my living and supported my family, but it's over. I don't want anything to do with it anymore.

For the past three or four years you know the crowd's behind you, supporting you, and to then be given a bit of a boo is not a good feeling.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Rock 'n' roll was never supposed to be polite.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.