Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

You should always stand up for yourself.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.

It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

I need to learn to be more assertive.

I used to get offended by things that were said to me, or how I was seen, Now I educate. If I get pissed off, I'll educate in a sassy way.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

Not 100 percent of the time, but I feel like I'm good at being direct. I know what I want, and I feel like I can tell people, 'I want this; I don't want this. I want you; I don't want you. I hope for this, and this is right, and this is wrong for me.'

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself.

When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

If I could go back to before I started 'Riverdale,' I would tell myself to speak up when I felt like something wasn't right - to use my voice and know that it's worth hearing.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

Now I have a standard for how I make sure people do not speak to me in a way that I feel uncomfortable with. When I was younger, I didn't have that. I was like, 'Try not to make waves.' I wanted everybody to like me, and so I stifled a lot of the discomfort that I had.

I've learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn't standing up for myself and I wasn't caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I say 'no' a lot. And if I knew how easy it was to say no, I would have started saying it earlier.

I can stand up for myself.