Quotes About Rejection

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

When Buddy Ryan cut me, my wife was pregnant.

I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.

I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now - my mom and dad were at the premiere - but they had kicked me out.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

I'm not a singer or a dancer, my Broadway dreams are ridiculous.

I'm not a dancer at all.

I've been turned down by so many things in Hollywood, and the world itself is only getting darker.

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

My issue was I was always the friend and never the girl, so I always had crushes on guys, and they all wanted to date my friends.

Every Bachelor and Bachelorette says, 'I never would have dated a person like that or a person from this place.' But if you're on the 'Bachelor' and 'Bachelorette,' obviously your type isn't working. So our job is to break that comfort barrier.

I don't get any dates; that's the thing.

I am always available for selection for Davis Cup. If TA select me, then great. If TA does not select me, then there's not too much I can do.