Quotes About Authority

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

I always wanted to captain the teams I played in.

As captain, you take a little bit more on board than probably just being a player.

It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.

Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.

If I am the captain, I will not even give the ball to anyone. I will keep bowling from one end.

When you are captain, how to project yourself.

Everyone makes mistakes, but when players or managers make mistakes, they are all accountable and have to take responsibility. When I talk about referees, you wonder, 'Can I say this?' You have to be careful - but they are the only group in the world of football who are treated like that.

Spending a week aboard an aircraft carrier as a 10-year-old was pretty wild. I wandered into the war room - I'm still not exactly sure what that is, but apparently it's not a place that a 10-year-old should be. I remember them paging my dad to have him come get me out of the war room.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

My mom was a great woman, but my dad was always the king of the castle, so to speak.

No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.

I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

To think that a Catholic bishop must answer to a civil authority over matters of faith is abominable. It is abhorrent to me, to other Catholics, and to every member of every faith community.

Cats rule the world.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

We can't let censorship take over.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

The Congress wants to ensure that it has the number to stay in power at the Centre.