Vic Morrow Quotes

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

They want us to be self-determined and they want us to be self-governed, and yet when we make these judgments, they don’t like it.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

I like it when things come to me; I choose a movie if I know I need to be a part of it.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I am not driven.

You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Stay small and control it yourself.

Self Control, Not State Control

What government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.