Quotes About Rejection

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

The way [Donald Trump] is dealing with this now is to say (paraphrasing), "I don't want these A-listers here. I'm not asking these people to perform."

"Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.