Manipulate Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

"And then there`s all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I`m always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle."

- Shirley Manson

Making movies is a constant manipulation. You manipulate the environment. You make it rain when you want it to. You manipulate actors. And as an actor, you try and manipulate your feelings to match what you think you`d be going through in a situation where your character is going through something.

- Joaquin Phoenix

I don`t `handle` people. It`s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It`s very easy to say whatever`s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It`s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

- Jon Favreau

There`s no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

- Stephen Hopkins

I don`t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there`s some kind of change.

- Bob Dylan

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn`t forgive others.

- Lauryn Hill

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn`t to get ahead.

- Randy Harrison

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

- Peter Jennings

All they are proving is their ability to manipulate, to think superficially, and to exploit national security issues rather than deal with them.

- Robert Scheer

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

- Jane Kaczmarek

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

- Mario Cuomo

What`s great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

- Robert Englund

It`s so easy to manipulate an audience, but it`s nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

- John Boorman

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

- Peter Greenaway

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we`re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

- George Takei

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

- Dario Argento

I do have goals that are different then what they used to be. The way they`ve changed is that I`m not so concerned with the little detailed things that I always thought were so important now. I`ve really learned how to manipulate the business a lot better. That was never really my thing in L.A. GUNS . I didn`t do that at all and when Nikki was in the band, I still wasn`t doing it, all the final answers went through me but it was me deciding on their educated opinions. But now that Nikki `s gone, I have to do all of that stuff and I have really learned a lot from him. Even more than twenty years in L.A. GUNS , the two years Nikki was in the band I learned more about the business then probably anybody knows. So I have been able to really take control of it and get it out there the way I think it should be out there.

- Tracii Guns

A politician`s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

- Dean Koontz

love doing voice overs! I`ve done so much of them from the time I was seven years old, and I never get tired. I always see each voice characterization as a full blown acting gig. I still get into character, and I really enjoy the process. For "Barnyard" I did the voice of a "chick," which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.

- Paul Butcher

That`s probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

- Gene Siskel

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini`s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

- Robert Byrd

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

- Richard Foreman

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

- Michael Ende

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They`re looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

- Joseph Wambaugh

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what`s best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

- Tammy Bruce

If you have 150 million people with no private property at all, it`s very easy to manipulate; it`s very easy to rule; it`s very easy to go out.

- Akarika Dawn

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

- Al Ver

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

- Alaina Walker

We can`t manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can`t start and stop ice ages, and we can`t experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

- Ali Aoun

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

- Alice Golembo

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

- Alice Plant

In today`s world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what`s good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

- Alvin Franco

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

- Amy Lambert

We can manipulate that process where normally genetic information is expelled, so that we can create eggs and embryos whose genetic constitution is identical to the mother,

- Andy Runzi

One of Jones` defining characteristics was his knowledge of the political levers on campus and his ability to manipulate them to cause real actions to be taken.

- Anoumone Kittirath

He tried to manipulate me into his little plan, and I wouldn`t fall for (it).

- Anthony Concil

Anyone who chooses to do anything that alters the outcome of the positions in this race or in the Chase, we will act quickly and severely, ... If we see anyone attempting to manipulate the outcome of this race, the Chase, or any race from here on out, we will handle it. You`ve never seen that here, and you never will.

- Aubrey de Vere

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

- Pope Paul VI