Quotes About Control

When someone oversteps the mark, there's a referee.

I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says 'no more,' and he taps. I don't want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

Can't nobody handle me.

I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Time is in God's hands.

We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who is used to being hands-on like me.

Everything I've done that I'm proud of is everything I've been the most hands-on with, so I'm just following that, really.

Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.