Quotes About Power

You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world - there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that's what confused me.

Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

The world's greatest power deserves to have the world's very best diplomatic corps.

Every actor wants to direct.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

Money really is a dirty word.

Politics is a dirty game.

There is dirty politics in sports federations.