‘Mad TV’ is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
I’m quite happy to laugh at Argentina’s obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.
I have a very distinct memory of ‘ExciteBike’ and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.
Ask my family about my obsession for discounts and they will tell you.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I’ve been a guitar junkie ever since.
It’s been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
The Champions League mustn’t be experienced like an obsession because, when you have an obsession, you never win!
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don’t last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
Any obsession is dangerous.
I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession – I’m really targeting a niche market here – a hair lip.
I’ve hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don’t understand the obsession with him!
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
People are like, ‘What is your whole obsession with butterflies?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not obsessed. I like them. Can’t anybody like something?’
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I’ve always said that I’m not a big scorer, I’m a worker.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I’m searching out rock climbing gyms. That’s my new obsession for 2013.
I’m more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it’s not an obsession, it’s a pleasure. There’s never enough time.
I’ve had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.
Zac Efron is my obsession, we’re the same person. We’re not actually here, it’s like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it’s me, and you don’t know that. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It’s a bloody knee. It’s bone. We can’t control our knees, our knees are not our fault. We cannot let this continue, we have to abandon this ridiculous new obsession and set the knee free.
Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness – these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand with a name that ends in ‘berg’; the only possible exception being the money thing, although clearly we are better at accountancy.
My obsession is to provide food and jobs to people in Tarlac. The province is primarily an agricultural province; food security tops the priority.
When I wake up, I’m like, ‘I gotta go to Whole Foods.’ I’m constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.
The microscopic world became my obsession.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space – that’s how long it takes to catch up on my music.
Yes, I’m a fan, and ‘The Lost City of Z’ has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don’t want our lives to end.
I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
What bothers me is our culture’s obsession with nudity. It shouldn’t be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There’s the worry about seeing one’s body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it’s like making a film – it’s the perfect length of time to tell a story.
The mother’s love for her child is very strong in Korean society – almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
I believe that ‘advocacy journalism’ is not an oxymoron. If that means that I’m going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
What I’m trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It’s my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it’s very much alive.
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I’ve been collecting shoes for a long time.
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.
Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting’s all about light. And it’s about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
I don’t think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it’s a real crime.
I have a ship’s bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That’s the level of obsession that I had.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.
No one forgets their first love. You’re experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story – tell a story in one minute.
Sometimes you don’t want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I’d rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.
