Tom Bateman Quotes

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

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

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

When you have come from the bottom and worked your way to the top, you are more grateful.

The best piece of life advice I've ever been given is to not take every no to heart - especially with my Little Fires Everywhere audition story.

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

A lot of people have been rejected and they just give up. I have never had that mentality.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.