Radhika Apte Quotes

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.

What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that again in any of the places I call home would destroy me.

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right for the part, but nahh, you're not quite what we're looking for.'

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Obviously, getting to United isn't easy, so not being given a chance is hard to take.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I think, for me, with regard to my parents, my biggest fear was not that they would reject me but that I would disappoint them. That by coming out, I would simultaneously dash my own dreams and their dreams for me, and I was afraid of letting them down.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.