Phyllis Diller Quotes

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

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

I can make men follow me to hell.

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

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

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than an hundred against it

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

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 can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.

I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

Even Disney - off the record, but on the record - knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don't act like it. I'm not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

I want to be dominant from day one.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

I always get my way.

I've always known I've had power.