Divya Dutta Quotes

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

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

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

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

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

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

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

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

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

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 used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I have had so many bad auditions.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

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.'

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

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