Wentworth Miller Quotes

You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

Wentworth Miller

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Me
  • Always
  • Rejection

• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Know
  • Constitution

• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Week
  • Chocolate
  • Cake

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Book
  • Turn
  • Cake

• What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • True
  • Criticism
  • Rejection

• Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Sun

• The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Job
  • Rejection

• I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • School
  • Job
  • Disappointment

• I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Book
  • Future
  • Rejection

• I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Writing
  • School
  • Learning

• If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Rejection

• Don't take rejection personally.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Rejection

• In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

  

  Emily Watson
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Rejection

• The opening line of the grant rejection read: “It has never been shown that PTSD is relevant to the mission of the Veterans Administration.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Rejection
  • Mission
  • Veterans Administration

• Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

  

  David Shannon
  • Cake
  • Fairy
  • Oatmeal

• Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

  

  Brand Blanshard
  • Cake
  • Custom

• In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • Country
  • America
  • Nature

• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Rejection
  • Cake
  • Auditions