Zosia Mamet Quotes

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Women have to write for each other; we have to hire each other.

I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women.

I think women should be there for each other and to support each other.

There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

All I want is to let women know that I will be there to support and encourage them when they set out to do something.

You're more powerful when you are working with other women, when you're helping other women out, when you're going to them for mentorship; we are all beneficial to each other.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

My period days didn't make me falter: they made me more determined to pursue my dreams.

It felt like home to be working with so many powerful women - Lizzo, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu. I felt so welcome and loved.

I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.

I've been working with a lot of girl power organizations this year. I have so many incredible women in my life that I'm supported by, and I wanted to shine a light on them and encourage other women and girls to do the same. We're often encouraged by the media to compete with one another, to bring each other down, or to feel small when seeing the success of someone else, and I just wanted to flip that script and challenge us to do the opposite. Instead, feel inspired and ignited by someone else's success.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

Pursuing your dreams involves you accepting where you want to go. Don't allow anybody else to talk you out of things or discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. You can hold on to your dream and never pursue it or you can start pursuing it. If you can see it, or if you can envision it... it can happen.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.