Daniel Handler Quotes

I am pretty tough as a boss.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

I like being a boss.

I'm the top dog.

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

I am not bossy, I am the boss.

I know I'm the most influential.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

When I walk into the room, I own it!

We were not born to sue, but to command.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.