42 Movie Quotes about Control (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 16, 2026

Memorable quotes about control, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Look, if you keep 'em under your thumb, they'll never end up in the gutter.

Jim Cummings as Pete in A Goofy Movie (1995)

2 It's Lotso. He's made us into a pyramid, and he put himself on top!

Michael Keaton as Ken Doll in Toy Story 3

3 You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

Tom Hiddleston as Loki in The Avengers (2012)

4 That's impossible. How will the emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

Quote from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

5 One thousand guards and one prisoner.

Quote from Kung Fu Panda

6 He put creatures in our bodies to control our minds.

Quote from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

7 You call that under control? He's under attack! -He's working!

Garry Shandling as Verne in Over the Hedge

8 Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

9 Hey, wait a minute. We control our own destinies, don't we? -That's debatable.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield; Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle in Garfield in Paradise

10 And above all, you must control your temper!

Quote from Beauty and the Beast (1991)