Top 66 Control Freak Quotes

I’m not saying I’m a control freak, though I’ll admit that I am at times.

When I go to work, I don’t want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I’m a control freak and an ogre – which I am – it’s only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

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

I’m a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

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.

I’m incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there’s going to be anyone to blame it’s going to be me.

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

I’m not a control freak.

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

I’m a bit of a control freak.

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.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman’s decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

I don’t like anything that’s too confining. I’m sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I’m out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it’s good to live a little!

I’m a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that’s my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn’t feel like a swiftly produced, whole seeky-eyed event.

I like directing myself; I feel like it’s one less person to give notes to. There’s an efficiency in it. I’m also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

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.

Maybe I’m a control freak.

You’re supposed to be a control freak when you’re an artist. That’s the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you’re not going to protect it?

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, ‘I let go and I’m going to let the cards fall where they fall… For a control freak, it’s hard.

I say I’m not a control freak and I don’t like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don’t like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.

For me, I’m a bit of a control freak.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

Being on TV sucks. It’s a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I’m a control freak. When I’m doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I’d love to collaborate with a writer, but I’m such a control freak, it might be difficult.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn’t do drugs or drink, and this was the ’70s. I didn’t like the loss of control. Which isn’t exactly right, because I didn’t know what happened when you did drugs.

I’ve been told that I might make a good producer because I am very Type A, and I’m kind of a control freak, so I’ve been told that that might translate well into producing, so I would certainly be open to trying my hand at that.

I think I’m too much of a control freak.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

I’m a bit of a control freak.

I think what’s surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what’s going to happen. I’ve had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I’m quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.

I do like things the way that I like them. But I’m trying not to be – I don’t wanna be that way. I’m not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It’s a weird question as a black woman.

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

Festivals are the best because you can’t control anything, and for a control freak like me, that’s a wonderful experience.

I’m a little bit of a control freak.

I’m a control freak. Totally.

I’m too much of a control freak.

I don’t think I was a control freak. I just couldn’t get my head around things. When I joined Sheffield United I was told I had £5m to spend, then when I went to see the chief executive he told me if I didn’t raise £350,000 no one was getting paid.

When it’s time to make music, that’s about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who’s casually in control. You’re feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

I’m obsessive, I’m a control freak, I get snappy with people.

I’m a little bit of a control freak, so it’s been nice to learn to let go and just trust others.

I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they’ve done with me?

I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak – sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

Control freak politicians never rest, and a few of the more dedicated ones are working relentlessly to slap chains on the world’s most unfettered market. The Marketplace Fairness Act will end up forcing consumers to pay higher prices for the goods they desire.

I’m a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can’t control everything in your life.

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.

I’ll admit it: I’m a control freak. I am. If I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it 110% or there’s no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

I can be a little bit of a control freak.

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

That’s why I love music – because I’m such a control freak, and it’s the only thing that I can’t really control.

I would love to direct some day. It’s a good job for a control freak.

I’m an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.

I’m far more relaxed with German. I’m a control freak. I like to know exactly who’s saying and doing what.

Drugs make me nervous, really, because I’m a control freak and I don’t like to be out of control on drugs.

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.

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.

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

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.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He’s the boss and has all the power. I’m a control freak, so that’s really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I’ve been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

I am a control freak.

I’m such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can’t be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.

I like writing. It’s partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

But, I’m kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don’t know what’s going on and what’s going to happen.

I find traveling anywhere very stressful. If I ever have to go on tour, I tend to find it all a bit too stressful. I am too much of a control freak with traveling, and nothing is ever on time. The one thing I can’t stand is being late.