Quotes About Control

I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.

For me, I'm a bit of a control freak.

I'm not saying I'm a control freak, though I'll admit that I am at times.

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

Drugs make me nervous, really, because I'm a control freak and I don't like to be out of control on drugs.

I just have never been a drinker. No matter how much I try I just can't stand the taste of it or the way it makes me feel out of control, which is a no-go for an anxiety-ridden control freak like me.

It's not that I'm a control freak - but I am. I want to make sure everything is perfect.

I can be a little bit of a control freak.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!