I Am A Control Freak Quotes

“If you Surrender to temptation then
weak is your soul, for you like grass
that alows the wind to be its "control
freak". A strong soul knows what it
wants and adheres to its principles like
a tree that stands still despite the
condition.”

— Morgan Chabane

“I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal
about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.”

— Emma Thompson

“You sound like a control freak." The words are out of my mouth before I can stop them.
"Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele," he says without a trace of humor in his smile.”

— E.L. James

“I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.”

— Anthony Bourdain

“I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.”

— Emilia Fox

“I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.”

— Eliza Coupe

“I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.”

— Kiana Tom

“They never tell you when you get born a control freak it will cost you a healthy love life. But it's true. You can't control somebody and have intimacy with them at the same time. They may stay because they fear you, but true love casts out fear.”

— Donald Miller

“I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.”

— Kevin Plank

“I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!”

— Raina Telgemeier

“I am a control freak.”

— Georgina Chapman

“Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.”

— Shane Carruth

“Control freak will be tortured by post power syndrome.”

— Toba Beta

“I believe there's a hand that guides us. It just isn't always a gentle one. Or one that seems fair at the time. But I dunno, I try to trust in it now. When I freak, I just try to ... shit, I guess trust in it. Because at the end of the day, what else can you do? Choice only gets you so far. Reasoning and planning too. The rest ... it's up to someone else. Where we end up, who we know, what happens to the people we love ... we don't have a lot of control over any of it.”

— J.R. Ward

“When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.”

— Michael Ovitz

“I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.”

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

“I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?"
A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.”

— Ilona Andrews

“You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.”

— Victoria Beckham

“I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.”

— Victoria Beckham

“I'm too much of a control freak.”

— Dido Armstrong

“Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.”

— Xavier Dolan

“I'm a little bit of a control freak.”

— Harlan Coben

“I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.”

— Halsey

“I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.”

— J. Michael Straczynski

“I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.”

— J.A. Konrath

“I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.”

— Chris Evans

“I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.”

— Chelsea Cain

“I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.”

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.”

— Drew Barrymore

“Poor control-freak Jeb. Your world's way off-kilter when little Alyssa's not tripping over her chastity belt. Is that it, bad boy?”

— A.G. Howard

“When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.”

— Taylor Swift

“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.”

— Daniele Bolelli

“When you have too many beers, you become like a control freak on everything.”

— Dion DiMucci

“I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.”

— Jenny Lewis

“Artists are not helper monkeys; they're not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it's also the artist's story, and if you're working with an illustrator who's any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.”

— Mark Waid

“I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.”

— Seth Green

“I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.”

— Max Tundra

“Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between Undertaker and Triple H. Other than all the obvious reasons, but the biggest one for me, those are the only two guys, I could make a mistake and it would be okay. I could put the trust of the match, the story, and absolutely everything into their hands and let go of my control. I'm a control freak (laughs). Those are the only two guys I can let drive and take my hands off the steering wheel.”

— Shawn Michaels

“I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.”

— Graham King

“I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him”

— Spalding Gray

“Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.”

— Pat Riley

“I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.”

— Juana Molina

“I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.”

— Kevin Munroe

“I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.”

— Isabel Allende

“I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.”

— Shane Carruth

“Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.”

— Judith Orloff

“[I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.”

— Heath Ledger

“I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.”

— Madonna Ciccone

“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.”

— Rob Zombie