Rejection Sensitivity Quotes

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Everyone fears rejection.

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

You take the risk of being rejected.

I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I had an attachment disorder.

I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.