B. J. Armstrong Quotes

The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

It's never occurred to me - and I don't know what right mixture of upbringing this was - that my opinion wasn't as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn't try or that I wasn't the funniest one in the room.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

But alas, I'd have to find a way to be opinionated without being too opinionated, authoritative without being a bitch about it, smart without being elitist, fair without being a pushover. If the boyfriends of my youth found me too authoritative when I should have been cheering on the sidelines as they kicked and tossed and smacked balls toward the vanguard, the male colleagues of my adulthood kept reminding me of my lack of authority as they unconsciously displayed theirs. I was always failing someone's standards of legitimacy, as a girlfriend, as a producer of opinions. It was an eternal no-win.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

I needed to prove to myself - to the manager, to the fans, even to my mum and dad - that I'm not just an average player.

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

I've exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

Nobody really knows how I fight or what I'm capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.

Maybe when I was younger, people didn't always believe in me; they didn't think I would make it to where I am now.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

I have to prove myself five times over.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.