Quotes About Control

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.'

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations or more government control - such as the government takeover of health care or the restrictions in domestic energy production.

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I don't have a problem with my temper.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.