Melanie Scrofano Quotes

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

Don't take rejection personally.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

There's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, but what can they do?

I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I'm doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.

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

There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.

I just spent five, six years sacrificing so much to try and fit into that one ideal, that one small standard, and I was never good enough. And it was just frustration that turned into motivation... That became my ammunition, all the people that told me I couldn't.

Rejection is just a part of life.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.