Browsing Topic Best Turned Down Quotes

I never regretted what I turned down.

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.

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.

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

Here’s what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I’d like to be in a ‘good’ movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn’t think I wanted to watch it.

I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. ‘God-nose’ was not more successful, so in the end ‘hexuronic acid’ was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called ‘ascorbic acid’ and I will use this name.

I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven’t turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I’ve been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn’t do a lot of times.

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.

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.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn’t want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don’t answer.

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

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.

The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

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

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don’t get approached often enough.

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

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.

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.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

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.

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

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.

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.

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’m only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it’s all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I’m just looking forward to knowing more.

I never turned down a mother role.

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

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

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.

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

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.

I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone’s want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don’t care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn’t anything that interests me all that much. I can’t think of anything I turned down that I regret.