Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.
Ben Gazzara

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
Jon Ronson

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
Anthony Doerr

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
Anita Diament

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
Robert Englund

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Meg Cabot

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Danielle Steel

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Thomas J. Sargent

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