How Do YOU Handle Rejection?- Page 2

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 3:49am

Didn't get a callback for crucible today (Just read the callback sheet). But it doesn't really matter because the audition I gave was, I felt, quite possibly the best audition I ever gave for anything. (That's not to say it was amazing or anything. It was simply better than every other audition I've given for other things.) So I feel good about it.

Analyzing it, I realized what they asked me before I auditioned:

"What are you majoring in?"

"Moving Image Arts," I replied.

Perhaps that had something to do with it. Auditions are open to everyone but I'm guessing the theatre majors get "first dibs", if you will.

But I don't really care because that audition was really really good. I almost didn't even go to read the callback sheet because I really was just auditioning to audition. I can live without doing it this year.

If I keep auditioning for everything as I am now, sooner or later I will be cast in something.

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 10:18am

Living in a small theatre community, there is always work to be done backstage. If I don't get a part, I usually mope for a couple days, get angry at everyone, and then realize how crucial I am to the show ("Hey, if I weren't there to dress Helena in her toga, she would never make it to the wedding scene, right?") It's fun just to be involved.

Also, alcohol = your friend. (Just not in great quantities.)

Updated On: 9/4/06 at 10:18 AM

[Duckie93]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:14pm

i just call my best friend and yell at her (she understands that i will yell at her and not mean it she just puts the phone down and walks away :))

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:21pm

Lock myself up in my rent controlled upper east side Manhattan townhouse and drink until I fall asleep.

Like to start the next day as soon as possible.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:31pm

Whenever I've not gotten a role I've auditioned for, I never felt it was a rejection of any kind. I just remind myself that there is NO WAY to know what a casting director has in mind for the character. You may think you are spot-on perfect, type-wise but the person casting may want a short blonde and here you are, a tall brunett...no changing the way God made us. My two favorite acting teachers have always echoed the same sentiment: Never audition for a role. Always audition for your Reputation, because, more often than not, you won't necessarily get the role you had in mind, but you WILL get put in their files for future shows, if you are any good.

[Katecab99]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:55pm

i say to myself, "self - i still think you're SUPER".


ha, okay. maybe not.

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 4:01pm

I have some friends that think they will get more parts as they get older. So maybe you will eventually find your niche.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 4:53pm

I simply remind myself that I am so enormously talented, they simply cannot use me for fear that I will overshadow the rest of the cast, from which they had a very limited pool of actors to choose from.

And then I mourn the loss of my pet monkey.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 5:24pm

I cry in a corner before cutting myself with a broken beer bottle after which I masturbate while looking at at my high school year book.

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:51pm

I take colleen's philosophy. And then I eat some Ben and Jerry's and watch T.V.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 8:15pm

I try to shrug it off. It's a part of the business, after all, much more so than actually getting cast.

I always think it's harder to get a callback and then get turned down, especially if you get really far into the process. (like, third round and don't get it)

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 5:19pm

I go back and think about the audition and really critique whether or not there was anything I could have done differently or better. Then I write that stuff all down in my journal and forget about it for the rest of the day and usually watch a Disney movie

[actor]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 5:22pm

How I handle rejection:

I scream at the top of my lungs and write that I'm a fugly actor in my burn book and post a picture of me next to that writing. Then I hand it in to Mr. Duvall. Then I run to Staples to Xerox pages from the book and throw them around the theatre.

[Danielm]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 6:53pm

Gin!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 6:54pm

I really need this job....

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 7:04pm

I drown my sorrows in a big bowl of ice cream. I critique myself right after each audition, so I don't really look at the audition after getting rejected. I just have to deal with the directors "vision."

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 7:35pm

I hate when actors get rejected they start bad-mouthing the company
"Oh, that theater company sucks anyway" "The director has no talent", etc. And yet, they auditioned to be part of that "suckie theater company"

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 8:07pm

I cry a lot. Then feel bad about myself in general. Consider qutting altogether.

Now there's an honest answer.

[broadway86]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 8:25pm

Just suck it up, and blow them away the next time.

Only once have I considered giving it up, but then I got over it because I knew that this was my calling. Since then, my work has gotten significantly better, to the point where my peers can finally respect me for what I do.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 8:41pm

100-proof vodka and a good wank session.








Huckleberry Finn
On The Mississippi

[Isabella2]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 9:08pm

I cry a lot too. Then i eat aything I want and watch tv until i feel guilty about being unproductive. Basically what ya'll said.

[MissElphie]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 10:38pm

Now there's an honest answer.

Lol. It was so honest, cause it happened just this afternoon. Now I have a migraine. Ow.

[singtopher]

Posted: 10/13/06 at 12:47am

I live by the "It wasn't meant to be" theory. It just makes it easier. There are so many other things to do besides the one.

Sometimes it is really, really hard. I had that happen about 3 or 4 months ago, and I had a really hard time for a while. I didn't "get over" it until recently, but It still hurts. But I can honestly say this is the worst its ever been. What did make it better was people calling me the next day in disbelief. Nice to know I'm not alone, ya know? ...well, damn. Now I just sound arrogant. Trust me I'm not!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 10/13/06 at 1:04am

I get very upset and think I suck for a few days, and then I usually get over it.

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you learn how to settle
For what you get
It will all go on
If we're here or not
So who cares?
So what?

Words to live by.

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 10/13/06 at 11:08am

I don't like telling people about upcoming auditions - I tell them "I don't want to jinx it". They believe I'm supersitious about it, which I'm not, I just don't wanna go thru the "1.How'd it go? 2. Did ya get it? 3. When will you hear?" that people outside the biz will grill you with.

when the answers are: 1. it went great. 2. not likely 3. probably never