Quotes About Control

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

It's hard to control the things that are going to inspire you.

I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think people act on their emotions without thinking on them and one of our biggest faults as humans is our instinct to do that. I know I've done it. I'm trying to learn how to control that.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

The world is a penal institution.

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in institutional terms, as it happens, it doesn't at all work that way.

Mr. Modi has to take instructions from Nagpur, and whatever Nagpur says, he will do.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.