Quotes About Control

Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

I never make a choice thinking about the results. I'm never gonna take a role or a project thinking where this could - what this could bring me or something like that, because you've got no control about anything, actually.

I know how loyal I was to Coach Blatt, and the people that know me understand that. I have no control over what people think.

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

I was tired of just kind of being on that express train, whatever you want to call it, so to speak. It just sort of shoots forward, and you have no creative autonomy, no control over your time, and there's not much time for side projects or family and friends.

God has given me so many things along the way - a lot of stuff that I had no control over. God's had his hand in everything I've been able to accomplish.

When you're an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions and turn up on time.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

All bowlers depend on movement, and I am no exception.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.