Joel Edgerton Quotes

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

I think my whole life, I put a lot of energy into pleasing other people, and trying to make jokes, and trying to make people laugh.

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I'm a bit of a control freak.

I can be just a touch controlling!

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

You run the party or the party runs you.

I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.