Estelle Parsons Quotes

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

If there is something that I want to do, I will definitely try to do it and not just let it go.

If I want something, I go after it.

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

I'm attracted to men who know what they want and go after it.

If I want something, I go for it.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

I'd like to think I'm ambitious, and I like proving people wrong and surprising people.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.

My mother has taught me to be self-reliant, independent and ambitious. She has taught me to chase my goals even though nobody believes in you, you need to believe and you need to fly.

I don't believe in muckin' about and hiding ambition.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.