Rejected

"There was a fair amount of rejections. I had like bi-yearly meltdowns. Every time I started sobbing, my mom would immediately say, 'Do you want to go home? Let's go home. But I never wanted to go home. I'm grateful that those years happened, because if I made it at 15, I don't know what I would have done. In experiencing rejection, there were a lot of positive experiences in retrospect."

- KIM ATIENZA

Thus said the award-winning actress Emma Stone as quoted by Hollywood journalist Ruben Nepales in the book, “Through A Writer's Lens.”

By the way, Emma's low-pitched husky voice, which has become her trademark, is a result of having baby colic.