Dove Cameron Quotes

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

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

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

I'm not in charge of my life.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it's not like I'm always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.