Quotes About Rejection

The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.