Quotes About Rejection

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

It's a tough journey as an actor in Los Angeles.

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

I love my country. If they don't love me, I don't care.

I know there are people out there that no matter what I do, say or become, they're not going to like me. Conversely, there's going to be people that no matter what I do, say or become, they're going to love me.

It's impossible to get everyone to love you.

People can love you, or they can hate you. It really doesn't matter.

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

Anybody who tells you they don't care about being liked is lying.

I have never said no to a film. Except once, 20-25 years ago, when a producer from Madras wanted me to play Jeetendra's father.

I just do not see myself playing for Madrid. They do not attract me, especially because of my past with Atletico.

It's mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles - not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

It's difficult to say no when Manchester City want you and you could play there. That much I have to admit.

He seemed to be an eternal on-sale item in the matrimonial market that everybody bypassed for the fancier merchandise.

You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

I love Wales, but it doesn't love me.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

You come to this, here's the marrow of it, not moving, not standing, it's too much to hold up, what I really want to say is, I don't want no fucking country, here or there and all the way back, I don't like it, none of it, easy as that. I'm giving up on land to light on, and why not, I can't perfect my own shadow, my violent sorrow, my individual wrists

What people discard could make a nation

No, no, no, no. Who are you? What is this? Don't leave. They're leaving. They've left.