Quotes About Rejection

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Because of my negative image, people used to hate me. I remember an incident while shooting for 'Zamaanat.' I was bitten twice by a cobra and the crew went to call a lady doctor whose clinic was close to the sets. She just refused to attend to me!

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much.'

Often when I go to home of people who have small children, the children will run from me, even though they have seen me on television. I understand why they do this but it is a sad feeling for me, even so.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

I was one of the first actors in London to be seen for Frodo ten years ago. I didn't get it, obviously. The right size, but too handsome, apparently.

We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.