Quotes About Rejection

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.

Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

Phooey, I say, and again phooey!

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

Nothing about us is right. We're the wrongest kids you've ever seen. Our faces are wrong with zits, we have the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and I think we might be ugly. Our families are wrong because none of us are rich, our bodies are wrong because we suck at sports, and there's something really wrong with all of our personalities, because nobody likes us, not even the teachers. Teachers make fun of us too, and think we don't notice.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

Am I a peer mediator? Not a chance.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

I didn't play an ODI game for 15 months when I was probably the best performer in one-day cricket. It happens in life. The best in the world are at times shown the door.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.