Quotes About Rejection

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.

I've been banned from just about everything.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.

It's really tough, it's a very kind of cutthroat industry and you have to be prepared that you're not going to get the parts that you want.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

Chris answered that careers were demeaning twentieth-century inventions, more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep." Smith

Billy might have known it for several months by now, and I might only just have begun to grasp it, but we had both come to the same realization: the realization that what we had to give, nobody really wanted any more

A drawback of email was that you could only delete it once: couldn't crumple it up, fling it to the floor, stomp on it, rip it to shreds, and burn it. Was there anything crueler, from the person who'd rejected you, than compassionate forbearance?