Dolph Lundgren Quotes

I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

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."

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

I was rejected for many-many films.

It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless.