Turned Down Quotes - Page 4

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

4 Copy quote
I never turned down a mother role.

Dorothy Malone

Mother, Roles

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

5 Copy quote

Show source
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

13 Copy quote
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

86 Copy quote
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

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

Emo Philips

Diving, Programmes, Cables

4 Copy quote
... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now.

Rachel Vincent

Real, Ducks, Chocolate

Rachel Vincent (2013). “Oath Bound”, p.243, Harlequin

9 Copy quote

Show source
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Conrad Veidt

Reading, Garden, One Day

5 Copy quote
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

Ken Loach

Thinking, Names, Looks

41 Copy quote
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Mary Antin

Children, Two Sides, Noses

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

8 Copy quote

Show source
I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

Pink

Animal, Publicity, Bash

8 Copy quote
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Garth Brooks

Team, Games, League

7 Copy quote
I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

Alan Shearer

Mean, Play, Juventus

11 Copy quote
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

Jason Patric

Giving Up, Enough, Give Me

4 Copy quote
I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you don't want AIDs, don't be a ice cream man. Or African. I'm neither and I'm fine.

Zach Braff

Men, Ice Cream, Want

4 Copy quote
It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

Fannie Heaslip Lea

Stars, Moon, Destiny

11 Copy quote
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

Rachel Griffiths

Christian, Strong, Buddhist

4 Copy quote
I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

Steve Lillywhite

Gun, Rocks, Rose

Source: www.avclub.com

4 Copy quote

Show source
My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Beyonce Knowles

Art, Believe, Order

"Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

4 Copy quote

Show source
I never regretted what I turned down.

Angela Lansbury

Never Regret

4 Copy quote
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Opportunity, Interviews, Adolph Hitler

53 Copy quote
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

Charles Durning

Directors, Producers

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

4 Copy quote

Show source
If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

Dick Durbin

Senior, Hurt, People

7 Copy quote
I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

Troy Garity

Fall, Years, Careers

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

4 Copy quote

Show source
I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

Emily Browning

People, Roles, Enough

4 Copy quote