Quotes About Control

We like lists because we don't want to die.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

I don't like to sing loud.

You can't ever get too high or too low.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

I don't get mad too much.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

I'm not a madman.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.