Quotes About Assertiveness

I don't suck up to anyone or do any of that. I point-blank refuse. I just hate it.

No one's ever come up and say 'You suck' to my face. I don't think anyone would ever do that.

As a woman, sometimes when I am in discussion with a director or producer, there is some kind of a different politics happening. Basically, 'I know more than you'. I am always on the lookout for that. I don't want to get sucked into that. I am very quick to respond to that.

When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.

I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.

When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into an audition room, and it's me and the same eight girls as always, I will have this thing that no one can take away from me. They can see us all as interchangeable. But I am not interchangeable.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

If the way I've performed a scene isn't to the director's liking, I discuss it, try to understand why he doesn't like it, and incorporate the suggestions. But sometimes I also take a very strong stand.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.

La dignité de la vérité se perd dans l'excès de ses protestations

I learned that I was right and everyone else wrong when I was nine.

You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head.

the trait a leader most needs is a lack of fear. Many people of extraordinary capabilities are held back by fear, fear of challenging others, fear of rejection, fear of being laughed at or of appearing to be naive or foolish.

That all you got...Bub?

Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.

Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.

Why had she hesitated to say they were lost, why hadn't she told him to turn the car around, to reverse their course, oh please!—but she had not dared offend him. The black water was her fault, she knew. You just don't want to offend them. Even the nice ones.