Quotes About Rejection

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off.

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

Actresses are defined more by the roles they say 'no' to it than the roles they say 'yes' to it.

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

In case you don't watch much TV or spend time with anyone under 40, 'Really?' is pop culture's pithiest way to deliver a withering put-down.

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!

I won't get a role if I say I want to do that. It depends on how saleable you're at that time.

There were very depressing days when the whole year everyone was working, and you were sitting at home because half of the people weren't giving you work and then there were some who didn't like you.

I know that the designers that have me in their shows have me for a reason, I know that the designers that don't have me in their shows don't have me for a reason, and I accept either way.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

I despised basketball for a long time.

What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that again in any of the places I call home would destroy me.

Lee Rang was abandoned by love, so he's a character who has a deep desire for destruction.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

I'm not good at audition tapes.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

I started off doing street team work for No Limit and Def Jam. I was the waterboy, the scrub. I was passing out demo tapes, and nobody wanted to hear them.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.