Debi Mazar Quotes

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

People might not view me as competitive as I really am.

I'll just continue to be aggressive. That's my thing.

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

I haven't had a great deal of luck with my career, have I? Maybe because I'm not pushy enough.

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance;/You must stir it and stump it, /And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Mexicans are not assertive about themselves like Americans. They are shy about themselves

He in Washington who does not toot his own horn may find it untooted.

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

I'm a very competitive person and maybe I'd taken things a bit too far at times.