Quotes About Rejection

I disliked everything about the '60s.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

I did not even watch my season after I came out of the house. I don't watch 'Bigg Boss.' I find it very disturbing.

I've been turned down for a lot of TV because they didn't think there was a place for Divine on television.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

I have one of those faces that nobody likes.

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

My biggest fear is, I mean, kind of what happened. Like falling for somebody and ready to spend my life with somebody and have them not be ready or to be like, 'I don't know if you're the one for me.'

The life of fame was never meant for me.

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I don't want a tech. I don't want to get one.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Edgy' music has always formed the cornerstone to any teenage rebellion. Most indulge in it precisely because adults like me don't like them doing so.