Quotes About Rejection

Si las palabras tienen una memoria similar, no hay duda de que la palabra «no» es la que más cadáveres tiene en su activo.

Vivre signifie refuser. Celui qui accepte tout ne vit pas plus que l'orifice du lavabo.

I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.

People think if you are a celebrity and if you're beautiful, or if you're slim, then life is a bed of roses. Or they think that if you're wealthy, you don't have normal relationship problems, because why would anyone reject you?

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I hated the royal wedding.

I simply can't dance, so an opening dance at our wedding is a no-go.

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.

I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.

I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I wasn't even popular at school.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.