Quotes About Power

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.

You need explosive plays to win.

I believe, just in the ring, I'm explosive.

I know that I have explosive power in both hands.

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

Hoover was a globalist and a technologist, and he understood America's rising position in the world. He believed that America could extend its power not just with arms, but also with assistance.

Your core is the center of your entire body - everything else is an extension - so you want to make sure you're strong in your entire core and not just part of it.

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

If anyone's going to bring about mass extinction, it'll be Donald Trump.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.

If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

Eye for an Eye' is super-simple, super-catchy, but very effective.

I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.