Dabney Coleman Quotes

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they're so good, and we're all trying to get the same parts.

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

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

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

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 wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.

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

That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league.

If you ask me, yes, I want the ball every play.

I can be aggressive at times. I didn't get to where I am by being a pushover, O.K.?

I am not bragging - it may sound like it - but there was nobody in this business that had the aggression and had the body that I had - nobody!

Part of the success of Girls Who Code is that I am a hustler. When people ask what my biggest strength is, it's that I'm shameless. I will ask people for help even when I don't know them.

That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.

I've always been the girl with a go-getter attitude.

I've got personality. And I can actually fight. I think that combination alone sells.

Every great player has a big character. I don't know any player with a lot of quality who just has quality - you have to have an ego and character to be the main person on the pitch.

I always want to fight guys that want to test me.

When I want something, I go out and get it. That's Ekta Kapoor for you!

Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

I don't settle. That's how I am.