Emun Elliott Quotes

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

For my first role, I had to audition five times. I've gotten a lot of no's and rejections. But I just had to keep working hard. I took classes; I worked on my craft and continued to work with an acting coach and just didn't give up on myself.

As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

The best piece of life advice I've ever been given is to not take every no to heart - especially with my Little Fires Everywhere audition story.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

When I was going into acting, my mom said, "You can't let that faze you. And if it does faze you, if you start getting upset if people say no, that's it - pull the plug."

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

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

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.