['Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them

— Simone Elkeles

People say we're control freaks, but control is controlling your destiny without controlling other people.

— Daft Punk

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what…

— Misty Copeland

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality-…

— Oh Land

“I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control…

— Emma Thompson

“Stop trying to control the uncontrollable.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain…

— David Lovelace

“Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some…

— Lawrence Joseph

“That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the…

— Max Lucado

We're all kind of control freaks as athletes.

— Paul Casey

“Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.”

— Ron Brackin

There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both…

— Perdita Weeks

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

— Alice Mattison