Rejecting Opportunities Quotes

If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you'll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn down more things than I do.

I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

I've politely declined a few reality-type things but generally have been asked to do things that I'd enjoy. I'll be doing less in the new year so I can get some writing done.

I turned down a lot of films.

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.

I never turned down anything but 'Gilligan's Island.'

I've said no to shows that have been on the air for six years because they weren't what I wanted to do.