Quotes About Assertiveness

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

I don't care what people say about me.

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

I am not a piece of jewelry to be worn so that others will admire you. If you choose to continue … you must also remember that when jewelry is displayed … it can be stolen.

Jangan hanya ya-ya-ya. Tuan terpelajar, bukan yes-man. Kalau tidak sependapat, katakan. Belum tentu kebenaran ada pada pihakku ...

Memang bukan nyai sembarang nyai. Dia hadapi aku, siswa H.B.S, tanpa merasa rendah diri. Dia punya keberanian nyatakan pendapat. Dan dia sadar akan kekuatan pribadinya.

Prithee, John, why do you not speak for yourself?

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

That's one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.