Quotes About Rejection

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

I waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got depressed, went into the abyss.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

The first eight years in Mumbai were specially tough. I knew during the first two months of my stay that there's no point waiting for hours to meet producers. They won't meet you and definitely won't give you a role.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.

A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Every audition, I walk out the door and throw the sides away immediately. You did it, now go home. And to me, that's kind of a baptism. If they call you, they call you. And if they don't, it's fine.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh.

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.