Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

After 'UNCLE,' I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I'd ask for them, and I'd often get them.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

No matter what, I'm going to ask for more.

I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.

I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.

I know what I bring to the table, I know my work. That's why I'm able to push for what I want.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

You don't get what you don't ask for

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.