Elizabeth Banks Quotes

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's not the kind of communication I mean. I mean expressing myself or even standing up for myself. I can sometimes be very passive.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want

Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo shoots, and they'll pull out some stuff that I'm not comfortable wearing, and I just tell them 'no'. I'm very glad God made me a person who's not afraid to say what I think. I can just go, 'No, I'm not going to wear that!'

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.

I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.

Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.