Alice Hoffman Quotes

I'm not in charge of my life.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

I struggle with control.

They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level.

People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.

Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.