Quotes About Failure

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

I hate being rejected.

In fact, most of the roles that I did came to me after being rejected by others. I chose them because of the potential. Every film that I have chosen has been crucial in my career, be it a hit or a flop.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

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

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

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.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.

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

Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.

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

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Not to oversimplify what football coaches do, but their success or failure hinges on concepts that aren't foreign to any coach.

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

'Apne' was a disaster. Anil Sharma hired me for three months, but it took a year-and-a-half.