Self-control quotes

“Don't let your personal feelings get in the way!”

Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“- Steve: Being called a cocksucker isn't personal?
- Dalton: No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.
- Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?
- Dalton: Is she?”
Gary Hudson - Steve
Patrick Swayze - Dalton

“If you weren't wearin' those stripes, I'd kick your fuckin' ass around the fuckin' block... yeah... but since I'm not into violence, I'll refrain from kickin' your ass at this time.”
Mario Van Peebles - Stitch

“Brave. It means that even when you're scared you control your emotions. You make the fear be really small and tiny.”
Connie Nielsen - Sandra

“I am trained in martial arts. Judo, aikido, karate. The first thing they teach you is self-control. If someone calls you a jerk, you don't hit them. You just walk away.”
Martin Hayter Short - Eugene Proctor

“- Ben Sanderson: Don't you think you'd get a little bored, living with a drunk?
- Sera: Well... that's what I want.
- Ben Sanderson: You haven't seen the worst of it. I knock things over... throw up all the time. These past few days I've been very controlled. You're like some sort of antidote that mixes with the liquor and keeps me in balance....” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - Ben Sanderson
Elisabeth Shue - Sera

“There's a tradition in tournament play: not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you.”
Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale

“Have you ever felt like you're not in control of your life?”
Delroy Lindo - Jackson

- Emcee: Whatever you do, don't hit him in the balls.
- Stu: You said "anything goes"!
- Emcee: Anything goes, but he'll take it personal.

Aron Tager - Emcee
Kevin Rushton - Stu

“- Dr. Herbert A. Morrison: You need treatment in order to control yourself.
- Claudia Draper: I'm in control, because right now I would like to ring your fucking neck! But I'm not going to.”
Eli Wallach - Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“Being misunderstood, that's a trial we must all bear. You have a wildness of spirit which is going to get you in trouble all of your life. So, you must learn to control it. You try and cultivate a little more feminine vanity.”

Wendy Hughes - Aunt Helen

I've always lived my life by the rule: "If you get, you give". For the last twenty years I've gotten from karate. I've gotten discipline, health, self-confidence, inner peace, everything that makes me what I am today. And today it's time for me to give back.
Thomas Ian Griffith - Terry

“My mother's always telling me I gotta control my anger, channel my energy into something more positive. Makes me want to slap her silly.”
Ned Bellamy - Sidney

“First you must tame the anger that lives in your belly.”
Mako - Buntoro Iga

“Make the money, don't let it make you.”
LisaRaye McCoy - Diamond

“You're no killer. That's my job! You don't have it in you!”

Muse Watson - Ben Willis

“- Timmy Fimple: When am I going to get the Major Chip Hazard figure?
- Christy Fimple: Never, if you don't shut up.”
Jacob Smith - Timmy Fimple
Kirsten Dunst - Christy Fimple

“- Carol Connelly: Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?
- Melvin Udall: Yes I do, as a matter of fact. And to prove it, I have not gotten personal, and you have.”
Julie Benz - Carol Connelly
Jack Nicholson - Melvin Udall

- Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: What did you say to him?
- Highway: I said "Don't give the prick the satisfaction," sir!

Everett McGill - Major Powers
Clint Eastwood - Highway