Rejection Quotes

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.