Albert Finney Quotes

There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

There it is. Take it.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

I don't conquer, I submit.

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

I have no power, no independence.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.