Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

I feel like I own the stage.

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.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

I suddenly got used to that feeling of being in control, which I never, ever feel when I'm not onstage - a feeling that you're the master of your own universe.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

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

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

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

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

When I walk into the room, I own it!

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

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

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

I do belong on stage.

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

I've always been bossy.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

When you walk in a room, the room should feel that this guy's different. What does he do? Who is he? And that's confidence, not cockiness.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.