Quotes About Rejection

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.

My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

I am not involved with 'Hera Pheri 3.' I have told the makers that I am not interested.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Don't forget my new kidney is a foreign object. My body attacks it. So I have to take these anti-rejection drugs to stop my body winning.

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

Lo que mueve a los mundos es la interacción de las diferencias, sus atracciones y rechazos. La vida es pluralidad. La muerte es uniformidad. Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades, al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte, nos empobrece y mutila. Cada visión del mundo que se extingue, cada cultura que desaparece, disminuye la posibilidad de vida.

Great fear can cast love out.

Al ritorno bisogna prendere il coraggio a due mani e fare il giro delle redazioni. Se non lo fate, per quanto siano belle le vostre foto, languiranno sugli scaffali. E' sempre difficile vendere il proprio lavoro perché ci si mette troppo ego. Abbiamo paura di essere giudicati, temiamo il rifiuto, viviamo male l'insuccesso.

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

As for Peter – we didn't even suggest a meeting, and so he didn't have a chance to tell us to go to hell.