Barbara Palvin Quotes

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

We all get discouraged.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.