Quotes About Rejection

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

I have been offered a lot of films with many big actors, but I have unfortunately declined them.

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Call it my bad luck or whatever it is, after 'Pyaar Impossible,' people were offering me nonsense films. I was offered roles of no consequence.

Rejecting offers has not been easy for me, especially when the movies involve some of my favourite actors and directors.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

I do not get that many offers in commercial cinema, to be very honest.

A move away from Arsenal did not fall through because I had no offers to move.

I have been getting some offers of films. But more than films, I have been getting offers for serials which I have obviously declined.

It wasn't because of Striker's bad performance that I didn't sign any film in Bollywood. There wasn't much to do in Bollywood, and the offers weren't great too.

I wasn't doing any movies because I was not getting the offers.

I am so conscious of my image because I have a daughter and have said no to offers for item numbers down South.

I didn't struggle initially. But after my hit Aashiqui, I didn't get any film offers for 8 months. That made me insecure.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I have never gone out on a real date nor has any guy asked me out on an official date.

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'

The fact that I didn't believe in God was something that I just didn't consider. And then when I did, it was like, 'Oh yeah, I'm out.'

I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.

Sometimes I might meet people, and they might just not like me, not want to get to know me. And that's OK. They're boring as hell anyway.

It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.