Quotes About Rejection

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

I turned down more offers to be Jack Paar or Johnny Carson or Steve Allen before the people on the 'Donna Reed Show' gave me a chance to earn while I learned.

I feel like anybody would be heartbroken to see how quickly or easily you are replaced; of course that's going to sting.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.