Quotes About Disappointment

I was in two successive European finals early in my career, so initially, you think that sort of thing is going to happen regularly. Then suddenly, it dries up, and before you know it, 13 years have passed before you get your next chance.

On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I hate being rejected.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

What is rejection? Rejection is something that you try and you don't get.

There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn't happening for me.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Everybody can relate to that feeling that, 'I'm having one of those days where I'm not doing anything right.'

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?