Career Rejection Quotes

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall's ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

I was not born for politics.

I'll never be a TV writer.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I have never been a recruiter. It won't ever happen.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

I had two cars repossessed, tons of debt. I had a horrible job that was damaging to my soul. After being on three different labels and knowing everyone and hearing yeses and nos and "You're it!" or "You're s - t!" I was depressed. But I never took no for an answer and really believed in myself.

I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

I read Henry Miller's 'Nexus,' 'Sexus' and 'Plexus' the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.

I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.