Manipulation quotes

“- Beth Garner: She seduces and manipulates people. She'll do anything she can.
- Nick: I thought you hardly knew her.
- Beth Garner: I know the type. I'm a psychologist.
- Nick: That means... you manipulate people too! You're a practicing psychologist. You're better at it than she is!”

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Dr. Beth Garner
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran

“Humans are shockingly susceptible to just about every form of thought manipulation.”
Stephen Moyer - Bill Compton

“It doesn’t matter what you do; it only matters what they’ve think you’ve done.”
Ryan Reynolds - Nolan Booth

“Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.”
Anna Torv - Dr. Wendy Carr

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

“Do you know how hard it is to trust people when your whole childhood was bullshit and manipulation?”
David Castañeda - Diego Hargreeves

“Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows.”
Tilda Swinton - Dr. Klemperer

“Avoid suspicion, manipulate your friends, and eliminate your enemies.”
Lindy Booth - Dodger

“- Eric Kluster: It was a time consideration, Mike.
- Mike Wallace: Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me?”

Stephen Tobolowsky - Eric Kluster
Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“- Dr. Sweet: You're transmitting a signal...
- Agnes White: Not me. The bugs.
- Dr. Sweet: The bugs have a transmitter?
- Agnes White: The bugs are the transmitter.”
Brían F. O'Byrne - Dr. Sweet
Ashley Judd - Agnes White

“We will manipulate the enemy, but we will not antagonize him needlessly. You catch more flies with honey, than with vinegar.”
Lawrence Pressman - Cathcart

“Do you know what kind of people like pain? Let's see, there's doctors and lawyers. I even have a judge for a client. But you know, it's not the pain that gets them off. It's the feeling of someone else being in control.”
Jaime Pressly - Violet

“When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.”
Julie Delpy

“Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens.”
Josh Pais

It's the way things are, it's "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer." They devised a plan to manipulate technology, economics, the media, population control, world religion, to keep things the way they are. And they have continued to meet once a year, every year, since the original meeting.

Michael Shannon - Peter Evans

“If you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.”
Nigel Cole

“Somebody got into our heads with big steel-toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town. Neurons got exposed and circuits got rewired. Our brain cells got obliterated, Raymond.”
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco

- White Demon: A whole world needs to be corrected. There is much work to be done - I trust you will be happy to do your part.
- Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson: I tried to do my best!
- White Demon: Yes, I know about your work. Now let me be honest, I'm far from pleased. You know what's shown on the screen is a mere reflection of someone's ungodly... (continue)(continue reading)
Kelly Tainton
Johan Rudebeck - Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson

“A sincere apology is just a manipulation tactic like forgiveness or generosity.”
Julianne Moore - Audrey Woods

“- Kathryn: Isn't it against the rules for someone of your age to seduce a minor like you did to me that summer in the Hamptons?
- Assistant Headmaster Steve Muller: You know that's not entirely true. It was you who seduced me!
- Kathryn: You know, you're right. It was me who seduced you, but then again... who would the school board believe? It's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amy Adams - Kathryn Merteuil
Jonathan Potts - Assistant Headmaster Steve Muller

“The news is completely manipulated. Everything you hear, every single day is designed by corporate media to do one thing only. To keep you living in fear.”
Justin Long - Matthew 'Matt' Farrell

“- Peter Evans: The CIA had smuggled Nazi scientists into the States to work with the American military and Calspan, developing an inter-epidermal tracking microchip.
- Agnes White: A what?
- Peter Evans: It's a surveillance tool. It's a microchip that's been implanted in the skin of every human being born on the planet since 1982.”
Michael Shannon - Peter Evans
Ashley Judd - Agnes White

“- Ben Marco: This is rich people, Manchurian Global, funding bad science, to put a sleeper in the White House, and that's what's going on Rosie. That's what's going on.
- Rosie: I want to believe you.
- Ben Marco: Well, then believe me. Help me.”
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco
Kimberly Elise - Rosie

“Bruce Wayne was right! You demented, bizarre, unethical toad! It is brain manipulation! I'm reporting you to the FCC, the Adverse Experimentation Board, the AMI, and the police! You are going up on charges, and then to prison, and then to a mental institution for the rest of your twisted little life! But first and foremost, Nygma, you are fired!...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Begley Jr. - Fred Stickley

“- M: Your job is to find out whether Carver or someone in his organization sent that ship off course, and why. Use your relationship with Mrs. Carver, if necessary.
- James Bond: I doubt if she'll remember me.
- M: Remind her. Then pump her for information.
- Miss Moneypenny: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.
- James...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dame Judi Dench - M
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Samantha Bond - Miss Moneypenny