Brian Acton Quotes

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

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.

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

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.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

My advice to people who've lost their job: go back to the things that made you from the start.

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

I've been very lucky that I've interviewed so many different people.