Walker Hayes Quotes

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

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.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

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

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

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

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

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 thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

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