Quotes About Rejection

At twenty-two, you are built for poverty and rejection. And you know why? Because you're good-looking. You might not realize it this morning, but thirty years from now, you will pull out pictures of yourself taken on this day and think, Why did nobody tell me I was so fucking attractive? You maybe can't see it now because you're comparing yourself to the person next to you, or two rows up. But you are stunning.

overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. *

The boundaries are not to be blurred. I was sent off, struck by his harshest thunderbolt, excommunication. In his eyes I am no longer a man of the cloth. But I yet feel the Lord's hand holding me up.

I was afraid of being annihilated on account of saying no: those who refuse to fulfill their duties lose their right to exist.

In that huge game of musical chairs, I turned round one day and found I had no place to sit. At a loss, I became a Goth—it was where people who had nowhere else to go ended up.

It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different it put you on a wonder. It was like seeing your sister turn into a 'gator. A familiar strangeness. You keep seeing your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister, and you'd rather not.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

There was this moment in my father's house where he said, 'My wife, she never had any kids and I never had any kids.' Yeah... He had never acknowledged my existence.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

I moved to London to get an agent, though that took a while - everyone said no, understandably.

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

When I left England and announced I was going to be an actress, the Windsors stopped speaking to me.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.