Control quotes

“I can't completely cage what's inside of me, or when it bursts out, it comes for blood. Better to feed it just enough to keep it in check, keep it on a leash, take it for a walk, make sure it knows the rules.”
Penn Badgley - Joe Goldberg

“I find people who are rude usually feel powerless in their own lives. Terrified of not being in control.”
Rachael Harris - Linda Martin

“We can’t control what happens to us, only how it affects us and the choices we make.”
Tricia Helfer - Charlotte

“How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again.”
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“Good dragons under the control of bad people do bad things.”
Cate Blanchett - Valka

“Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.”
John E. Douglas

“Because someday, something will go wrong. It could cost you your life or something worse. And on that day what you can’t be thinking is that you are to be blamed for something you couldn’t control. That’s life. Enjoy it, until the party is over.”
Pedro Alonso - Berlín

“There are moments in life we should just be able to have a damn remote control, so you could pause it. Even if just for five minutes. But sometimes things happen with irreverent obscenity and there’s nothing you can do to help it.”
Úrsula Corberó - Tokio

“It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it’s predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”

Anya Taylor-Joy - Beth Harmon

“Did you know that there's fluoride in the water that the government uses to control our minds?”
Shahadi Wright Joseph - Zora Wilson

“I don't know what's happening to me. When I lose control, things happen, bad things to people I love.”
Sophie Turner - Jean Grey

“- Deke Slayton: Jan, you have to trust us. We've got this under control.
- Janet Armstrong: No, you don't. All these protocols and procedures to make it seem like you have it under control. But you're a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood! You don't have anything under control!”
Kyle Chandler - Deke Slayton
Claire Foy - Janet Armstrong

“Einstein was right. We didn't evolve out of random chance. There is a higher power controlling all of this. My ancestors believed in a God of the earth, a God who seeks revenge for the wrongs done to the earth. This is what's happened.”

Ned Romero - Frank Redbear

“Whoever controls the high ground of space controls the world. The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later, the British Empire was dominant because they had ships. In the Air Stage, we were powerful because we had the airplane. And now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon they'll...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Moffat - Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Glen: Well... ever since I burnt a hole in the roof my dad says I can't launch any of my rockets without supervision.
- Terrence 'Terry' Chandler: Hey... I'll supervise.”
Stephen Dorff - Glen
Louis Tripp - Terrence 'Terry' Chandler

“- Atreyu: What is the Nothing?
- G'mork: It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it.
- Atreyu: But why?
- G'mork: Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control... has the power!”
Noah Hathaway - Atreyu
Alan Oppenheimer - G'mork

“- Ynyr: I cannot stop the sand.
- Lyssa Widow of the Web: You cannot stop time. Go now. Save the other Lyssa.”

Freddie Jones - Ynyr
Francesca Annis - Widow of the Web

“Sex was a game to her. She got off on the control. She always used to tell me it had to be her way.”

Frank Langella - Jeffrey Roston

“- Lizzie Potts: Oh great, look at this. Hungry Man, cup o' soup, cup o' stew, cop o' noodles...
- Gus Kubicek: Do you mind not indexing my garbage?
- Lizzie Potts: What's this?
- Gus Kubicek: Oh please, by all means, review my mail.
- Lizzie Potts: Get well cards?
- Gus Kubicek: When you're through, my diary is upstairs.”
Shelley Lee Long - Lizzie Potts
Steve Guttenberg - Gus Kubicek

“- Angel: You've been hanging around creeps.
- Ms. Bright: Angel! That's not a very nice thing to say to your mom.
- Angel: I'm gonna keep my eye on you.”
Kristy McNichol - Angel
Margaret Blye - Ms. Bright

“This situation must be controlled before it's too late. They're multiplying too rapidly!”

David Crawford - Dr. Foster

“- Col. Colin Caine: Tell me again how the girl over powered you.
- Dr. Bukovsky: She... was the most overwhelmingly feminine presence I have ever encountered. I was drawn to her on a level...
Col. Colin Caine: Was it sexual?
- Dr. Bukovsky: Yes. Overwhelmingly so, and horrible. Loss of control.”
Peter Firth - Col. Colin Caine
Michael Gothard - Dr. Bukovsky

“- Daisy Werthan: Did you have the air-conditioning checked? I told you to have the air-conditioning checked.
- Hoke Colburn: I had the air-conditioning checked. I don't know what for. You never allow me to turn it on.”
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn

“The job of director is to control the illusion.”
King Vidor

“I can make the sky rain coconuts with pinpoint accuracy, but I still can't control men's minds.”

Faye Dunaway - Selena