Min Jin Lee Quotes

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

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

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

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.

It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

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.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.

I've been in baseball my whole life, so I understand there's a lot in baseball that is out of your control, and you have to focus on the things you can control.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to get turned down for all sorts of jobs. I used to writhe in pain, but then I would say, 'Good. Good. I will get stronger for this.'

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.

Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom.

I try to remember who I am and what I come from, because I didn't come from super means. I had to work and pray and try really hard to succeed and get everything that I wanted out of life.

After three months of singing, Hef heard me practicing once. He tried to convince me to quit singing lessons because there was no chance of being good at it. Of course, I cried a lot when he said that, but it was my money that I was investing in lessons so I continued partly out of spite and partly because I really wanted to do it.

You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.