Quotes About Rejection

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly as it was, or it would remain in my notebook/laptop, and no one would ever see it. This is probably why I didn't work with an editor until I was 26. The solipsism!

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

I revere my serials. But the reality, at the same time, is that it is difficult to get a break in films. I have been unceremoniously ousted from 20-25 films because I am a serial actor.

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

I've auditioned so many times and been told I'm 'not sporty enough' or I'm 'not sexy.'

If people don't like me, they don't like me - if they want to shake my hand, they'll shake their hand.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Obviously, you're always shocked when you feel like you're not wanted anymore.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

I hate show business.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

I hate the showbiz scene.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.