Quotes About Rejection

I tried out for 'Tough Enough' season 2 originally and made it to the final casting episode and got cut by Kevin Dunn, who said all I wanted to do was run and flip and jump.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to parties and flowers will reach you on your birthday. When you are not doing well, you are really an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I'm the outcast of the hip-hop game.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

I'm an outsider, I guess.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I'm an outsider.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

Maybe I am not destined to be part of movies. I feel that one needs to be connected in Bollywood, because, for outsiders, if the first film doesn't work, no one gives them a second chance.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.