Judith McKenna Quotes

I come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.

I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

The way you deal with bullies is you change their economic equation. Make it more expensive for them to hassle you.

Sometimes when you're not getting what you want in this game you have to shout a bit and throw a bit of a tantrum.

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can't expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that's very important.

I know how to stand up to a bully - but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

I can sit in the boardroom and battle it out, step up and be a project manager, take risks, and put my ideas alongside anybody's.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

I can stand up for myself.