Rejects Quotes

(on her role in Crossroads (2002/I), where she plays Britney Spears` mother, who abandons her daughter as a baby and later rejects her as a teen) It was one of the hardest jobs in my life. I had to be mean to Britney Spears. She is such a little Southern sweetie who is only 20. She was so nervous and so well-prepared, and I had to reject her on screen because I`m her horrible mother who has left her.

No matter who rejects you, don`t lose touch with your higher self, with the higher powers, with anything that you can find which is of the light, that will give you strength in those times when you feel so lonely.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

(on killing off the lead characters in The Devil`s Rejects (2005)) "That was always the ending and every actor had a complaint about that. I wanted to do it because it seems like nobody makes a movie anymore without a sequel set up. Lions Gate was like `The franchise... It`s gone.` But you know, that`s the problem. I feel like there`s never a definitive ending anymore. Every movie ends with the possibility of another one and it drives me crazy. I feel like, `Why did I just invest two hours? It didn`t even end.`"

People don`t enjoy violence in real life, but they love it in their movies. And I think a lot of studio horror movies don`t want to offend anybody. If there`s anything that`s too far out there, they test it and if it offends people, they take it out. But Open Water, Wolf Creek, The Devil`s Rejects -- these are movies made outside of the studio system, that don`t have a happy ending. (The studios and critics) forget that that`s what people are paying for -- to be terrified and disturbed.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can`t help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

It`s appalling that the US military killed these women`s families and then the US government rejects their visas on the grounds that they have no family to return to in Iraq. These women have no desire to stay in the United States. We had a very hard time convincing them to come, but we told them how important it would be for their stories to be heard by Americans.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.