I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.
Political lobbying is like propositioning women. You get slapped a lot of times, but then you get some ‘yeses’ as well.”
Johnson was very experienced at both.
It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.
I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.
It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work, there will be at least five who will reject you.
Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
You have to know that 99% of auditions you're not going to get.
Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.
You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.
Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.
I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.
I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.
You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
