Quotes About Assertiveness

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.

I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.

Amanda Seales

I'm definitely not a nerd, not a nerd at all.

I'm confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.

I'm never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!

I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.

I'm not nervous standing with anyone.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.

I've been taught through life experience that, like, I'd better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don't, I will be defined.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I am. I know who I am.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

If you don't get something, don't spend your time wallowing. Just move on and then speak up for the next thing, and hope that you're involved in that.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

I like nice people, I don't like nasty people, but I like somebody that's not a pushover.

I am a nice person. I'll put that out there.

I said 'no' nine times when Kanye asked me to work with him because I liked being friends with him. Then he put me in a position where I couldn't say no: He just told everyone I was his manager.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

I just wouldn't enjoy standing there like a paper doll, having someone else stick paper dresses on me. That would be no fun.