Quotes About Rejection

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Great work is always shunned at first.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.