Turned Quotes

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

I never turned down a mother role.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

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

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

I never regretted what I turned down.

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.

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 never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

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

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

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.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

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.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

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.

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

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

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 think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

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

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.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out.

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

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

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 contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.

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

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.