Obsessive Quotes

I've been called many names like perfectionist,
difficult and obsessive.
I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the
details for any artist to be good.
- Barbra Streisand

I'm a hygiene freak.
I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
- Kelly Clarkson

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do,
whether it be gardening, or architecture,
or music.
I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
- Gates McFadden

I'm a very obsessive type.
If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day.
I just don't want to do that.
- Yoko Ono

I become kind of obsessive about research.
- James Franco

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.
- Nicole Kidman

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
- Theodore Sturgeon

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort
of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should
know how to question and above all,
to moderate.
- Jacques Derrida

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
- Dave Navarro

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where
I have to have everything in a straight line,
or everything has to be in pairs.
- David Beckham

I am obsessive, also I am industrious.
Besides, the time when you are most alive and most
aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture
that heightened awareness.
- Edna O'Brien

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting
through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience.
But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
- Tom Baker

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller,
and by a very peculiar trick of my father's.
My father would tell a very, very long story,
and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
- Stephen Greenblatt

If only the strength of the love that people feel when
it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive
as the love we feel when it is not;
then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
- Ben Elton

If you have a good ear for dialogue,
you just can't help thinking about the way people talk.
You're drawn to it.
And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it.
You almost can't help yourself.
- Robert Towne

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I
had almost no money so I thought about being an urban
firefighter and having lots of free time in which to
write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about
books and writers on a daily basis.
That swayed me.
- David Guterson

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work.
And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted,
not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
- Arne Jacobsen

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive,
day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally,
then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction
writing at the University of Iowa.
- John Dalton

I did not want to put myself on the line,
as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor.
The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive -
and aggressive.
I did not want to risk their anger -
or my own reputation.
- Geoffrey Rush

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap,
but I try not to obsess about it.
I don't want to spend my life being angry.
- Stella McCartney

I obsess too much.
- Meredith Brooks

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word...
but we have only one shot to get it right in concert.
It was hard the first time I practiced with them.
I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
- Amy Tan

I'm not an historian but I can get interested -
obsessively interested -
with any aspect of the past,
whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
- Penelope Lively

Composers dialogue - and obsessively,
bitterly argue - with other composers,
often over the span of several centuries.
- Brian Ferneyhough

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we,
women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and
no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older,
et cetera.
- Sela Ward

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest,
remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself,
shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he
remakes it in his own image.
- Joan Didion

Everybody needs a way out of that pain.
Many people choose drugs and alcohol.
Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits,
which is what I did.
At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
- Mariel Hemingway

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics,
Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
- Karl Rove

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses
him in life that he never has to ask himself what it
is suitable for him to do in art.
- Lucian Freud

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball.
Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood
why fans are so obsessed with them.
- Hank Aaron

If American men are obsessed with money,
American women are obsessed with weight.
The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss,
and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
- Marya Mannes

I was obsessed with romance.
When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every
day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
- John Hughes

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is
that I am obsessed with hockey.
I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with
hockey since I was a little kid.
- Rob Zombie

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership,
you have to be obsessed in some way.
- Pat Riley

I am obsessed with ice cubes.
Obsessed.
- Drew Barrymore

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting
had become obsessed with materiality,
and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
- Frank Stella

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl.
I was obsessed with her.
- Reese Witherspoon

We have a good life when we manage to live with both
satisfied and unsatisfied needs,
when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik

Americans are somehow obsessed with her,
and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
- Utada Hikaru

I never got away from the war.
Not because I was obsessed with it in those years,
but because it was the event of my generation and I
started out covering it so I stayed with it.
- Neil Sheehan

I'm sort of obsessed with the news.
That is a syndrome.
But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
- Sam Waterston

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop
culture is that they kind of like it light.
- Bill Griffith

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
- Fiona Shaw

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the
Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
- Lanford Wilson

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music,
a little obsessed.
- Elijah Wood

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and
if I want anyone to get anything out of my book,
it's how we can all have them in our lives.
- Rachel Zoe

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
- Paul Lynde

If you don't have obsessions, don't write.
my characters are obsessed.
- Marguerite Young

I became obsessed with all these women who die never
feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
- Salma Hayek

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching
for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
- Eugene O'Neill

In order to properly understand the big picture,
everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and
obsessed with one small section of truth.
- Xun Zi

I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal!
Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...
my entire body is hairless.
- Kim Kardashian

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
- Fiona Shaw

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
- Beverley Mitchell

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing,
so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
- Joan Armatrading

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous.
He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved
greatness before turning 30.
- John Cusack

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows,
pinks, reds, blues.
I'm obsessed.
- Monique Coleman

I don't like to produce albums.
I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact,
because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.
- David Friedman

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make
everything look so easy when it isn't.
- Joely Fisher

People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth.
- Gina Gershon

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body.
Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search.
It's very sad.
- Judith Rossner

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
- Elias Canetti

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with
what's happening in LA too.
They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to
know what's going on in Hollywood.
- Debi Mazar

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
- Joanna Newsom

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work,
but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
- Barbra Streisand

People are intrigued and fascinated,
almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
- Geoffrey Rush

People are never more insecure than when they become
obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
- Norman Cousins

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
- Gina Gershon

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed
with one idea and nothing else.
- Ugo Betti

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie.
Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
- James L. Brooks

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
- Utada Hikaru

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