Personal Rejection Quotes

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

They didn't like my voice at school.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

As a minister and public official I must desire that it [the draft Constitution] be accepted, understanding well enough the need that we have some form of definitive organization. But as a citizen having to live under such a constitution, I disapprove of it and reject it.

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you.

Everyone wrote me off, including me.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn.

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.