Turned Down Quotes

• After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  George Ade

  Writing, Belief, Publishers

  Fables in Slang (1900) p. 158

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• You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Successful, Yale, Want

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• I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

  Sheryl Crow

  Perseverance, Games, Skins

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• I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

  Joel McCrea

  Roles, Good Enough, Ability

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• I never turned down a mother role.

  Dorothy Malone

  Mother, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

  Matthew Perry

  Beautiful, Kids, Hands

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• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  War, Vietnam, Facts

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.

  Jessie Ware

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

  Noah Baumbach

  Regret, Should Have, Good Movie

  "Noah Baumbach Talks FRANCES HA, Partnership with Greta Gerwig, His DreamWorks Animated Movie, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, and THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Might, Way, Scripts

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• I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

  Al Pacino

  Firsts, Film, Made

  Source: members.tripod.com

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• I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

  Robin Wright

  Want, Film, Coming Out

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• I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

  Nick Frost

  Regret, Done, Down And

  "Nick Frost Talks UNFINISHED BUSINESS, TINTIN 2, THE HUNTSMAN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 11, 2015.

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• There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

  Max Irons

  Auditions, Adults, Roles

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

  Dianne Wiest

  Kids, Priorities, Want

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

  Rene Redzepi

  Jobs, Scratches, Want

  "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Thinking, Bigs

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. January 7, 2004.

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• I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Couple, Roles, Comedy

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• I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

  David Oyelowo

  Nice, Opportunity, Order

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• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Turkeys

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• I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

  Karen McDougal

  Jobs, Playboy

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• I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

  Shane Black

  Made

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

  Asia Argento

  Mother, Queens, Mean

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

  Emo Philips

  Diving, Programmes, Cables

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