Quotes About Assertiveness

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I don't care what people think. People are stupid.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.

As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.

I've never had a stylist or anything. I don't let people style me.

In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.

I am not totally subdued, I do scream and shout.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I'm going to finish my opponent. I'm not going to try to win by decision.

I don't see myself playing the docile, submissive bahu on television!

I don't want to have to kneel down to my husband, I don't want to be submissive.

Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, "I'm good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way." You can't depend on that to come from nobody else.

All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!".