Top 1200 Turned Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

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.

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

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.

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular basis.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.

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.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Something I had learned from 30 years as a psychotherapist turned Fortune 500 executive coach when helping people to calm down is that it is much less important what you tell others than what you enable them to tell you and, in the process, tell themselves that results in them calming themselves down.

I was always fat and not very athletic. Finally in my junior year I went on a diet. I got down from 220 to 140. It was very funny, all of a sudden I was much more popular. I could get dates with pretty girls who had turned me down before. I was the same person! It was a learning thing for me, part of growing up. I realized it was all so artificial.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of features down.

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

But I did break my mum's heart, because I turned down 'Strictly' twice. I just couldn't do it. It's not for me.

I made some really bad decisions, and I turned a lot of work down and kind of got lost in life.

She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

I'd never been turned on by the Ken doll—even before I looked down his pants and saw what was missing.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

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.

I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

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.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

Juventus offered me the opportunity to sign in 2017 and I turned it down. I just didn't feel the timing was right.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

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.

I've turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn't feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.