Quotes About Control

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I'd rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.