74 Movie Quotes about Rejection (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Aug 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about rejection, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Look, why don't you just go home and marry a toad? Did you ever think about that? You find yourself a pretty toad with warts and you marry her.

Gilbert Gottfried as Berkeley Beetle in Thumbelina (1994)

42 But I want to know what's out there. I want to see it. -But you're not invited.

Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson; Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)

43 A girl who was infatuated by a man she could never have. So what does she do? Of course. She spills coffee in his lap and pushes him over a cliff.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)

44 You're barkin' up the wrong tree. It's not you I'm after. -It's not? It's not! Well, why not? What's the problem, Spot? Not good enough for you?

Billy Joel as Dodger in Oliver & Company (1988)

45 Good! Then, get the hell out of my life! Who needs you? Beat it! Leave me alone!

Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore

46 There's no way I can stay here. Not with them not liking me. The only thing left for me to do, is move away.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

47 You? -I marry her! -No, I no marry you. I go home! -No! -Go away!

Jodi Benson as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994)

48 Well, why didn't you ask? -You might've said no, and I have a hard time handling rejections.

Sally Field as Carrie "Frog" in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

49 If this girl can't smell your qualifications, then who needs her, right?

Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

50 No, no, no, no, sir! Can't use them. Don't want them. Couldn't afford them if I did.

Tom Cruise as Cole Trickle in Days of Thunder