Quotes About Rejection

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you're lucky to have a career, it's not easy. So you just want to protect your kids from the pain of rejection.

I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.

Every actor knows what unemployment is like, and knows what long periods of unemployment are like, unless you're spectacularly lucky.

Minister Farrakhan absolutely says anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. And we have unequivocally rejected all forms of racism and hate, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to get turned down for all sorts of jobs. I used to writhe in pain, but then I would say, 'Good. Good. I will get stronger for this.'

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

The truths of the one subject have already been discovered, but have not been accepted because they spell the death of the faith in the lie.

The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don't want it.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.

If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.

The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.

I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

I never got picked for the athletics team for about three years. I was in my third year, and I really wanted to join, and I kept basically knocking on the door of the PE coach. 'Can I join? Can I join?' He's like, 'No... No.' And then one day, he's like, 'Okay, you want to race? Cool. We have a free spot for you. You're gonna be doing the 400.'

If Spurs ever came back in me for me, I'd say no.