Bob Goff Quotes

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

You make a mistake, you keep going.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

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.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

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."

Every time you get rejected, say: 'Next!'

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

With failure, you just try again.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

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

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

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