Quotes About Rejection

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.

We would go on 'The Voice,' and we'd get kicked off of the first episode, probably.

I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

I don't give a crap about what fans or people say, they can kiss my butt.

I couldn't even imagine kissing something.

Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

It knocks me for a six when someone online asks me on a date.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

I've gone through a lot of 'nos' from record labels but I've built a great team along the way and that's the best thing you can have - people around you who believe in you and drive you forward.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

Trash can!" Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I'd eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn't actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.