“I was told they wanted a better drummer, I was anti-social, I wasn't a Beatle. It was a load of rubbish.”— Pete Best
“What's so fucking great about beauty? It's a curse. I'm not a beautiful person, and I don't want to be.”— Alex Chilton
“You can't be a writer and have any pride. You've got to be a masochist. The rejection is just incredible.”— Harry Crews
“An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat or too thin or too dark or too light. It's a personal thing.”— Judy Davis
“Being an actor, there's a lot of rejection and a lot of reasons to give up. I am not a quitter.”— Clea DuVall
“The pop-music world is a difficult place. You have to be able to take a lot of rejection.”— Don Everly
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”— Radclyffe Hall