Quotes About Rejection

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

I would audition for 50-60 ads in a month and would get nothing. It affected me not just mentally but also physically. I put on 14 KGs in those two years.

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.

A lot of people ask me, when I mention I'm from Australia, that I must have been on 'Home And Away,' and I tell them was one of the few who didn't take that route. That's because I auditioned for 'Home And Away,' and I didn't get booked, so you'd call that a knock back.

The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.

I don't need to be in New York. If you've had a bad game, they're booing you and all that mess.

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

Several times, I've been talking with some gross person at a party and had them literally walk away - mid convo - to ruthlessly approach someone more famous.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

At first, we were militant about our faith, really in people's faces. We used to say, 'I don't care if they kick us off the stage - I'm gonna tell them about Jesus!' But what good did that do? They never invited us back to the club.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

I will not do a run of the mill kind of a film or role. I will not say yes to that.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down 'Millionaire.' I couldn't have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn't have done it any better.

I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.

But simple people don't understand complicated ones and thrust the latter back on themselves, more ruthlessly than any others, I thought. The biggest mistake is to think that one can be rescued by so-called simple people. A person goes to them in an extremely needy condition and begs desperately to be rescued and they thrust this person even more deeply into his own despair. And how are they supposed to save the extravagant one in his extravagance, I thought. Wertheimer

I hate nothing more profoundly than the multitude... the accumulation of people, the concentration of vileness and mindlessness and lies. Much as we should love each individual, I believe, so we hate the mass.

if that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me...

Ich kenne die Natur überhaupt nicht und ich hasse sie, denn sie bringt mich um.