Quotes About Control

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don't want them to have input. But that's not with Marvel.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

For a stunt woman, emotions don't matter to the shot. It was easier for me to do my job if I shut all my emotions off.

When I'm a stunt woman on a movie, I'm strictly a 'Yes sir,' girl... But acting puts more in your hands, and producing gives you more control still.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Social media and smart phones have become an inevitable part of our lives. We shouldn't be under their control, which is wrong. It is mere stupidity, and we must be aware of everything around us.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

I only have a stylist when I go to big events, but even then, I give them moodboards to show exactly how I want to look, so I'm mostly in control. I dress myself on a daily basis, though.