Quotes About Assertiveness

It's my party and I'll die if I want to!

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

That's what world leadership is: A willingness to point at bad guys and say they're the bad guys and to keep the bad guys from getting worse! That's leadership. Obama didn't want to go there.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.