Power Quotes

"I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet."

"Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'"

"Attribution is power."

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast."

"There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part."

"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl."

"I'd rather control someone than be controlled."

"And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery."

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately."

"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before."

"People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America."

"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."

"I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot."

"I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force."