Sophia Bush Quotes

I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much.'

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I have had to learn about saying no.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

People don't really bother me as much as you might think.

I don't believe in poking nose in other people's matters, but when it comes to matters related to me or something that affects me, I will not shy away for saying something I believe.

I have never given others a chance to exploit me.

I don't mind it. My friends think it's kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.

I have a boundary problem... I need to know when to give and when to back up. I'll help someone across the street and then into their homes and they'll start telling me all their problems... and it turns out they're insane and want to kill me. I've got to know when to stop!

I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.