Professional Setbacks Quotes

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

There was a time I couldn't get a job.

Did I have rough days? Days I didn't want to train? Days I thought my career would never get back off the ground and possibly be over? Absolutely.

There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

If you look at my past in the Premier League, without going into too many details, I don't think I had much of a chance at any of them, for different reasons.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Some of my films were worth it and some were not. Like every actor, I had my share of ups and downs but I took it in my stride and tried to learn from it.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

I think I have an innate inner confidence, one that I don't feel I need to prove all the time. There will be times throughout your career when it does dip a little bit. Whether it's from within, or something you guys have written.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.