Top 44 Obsess Quotes

I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They’ve been earned. They’ve been fought for – so there’s no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it’s to do with what’s inside you. You can’t obsess about the outside.

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It’s a devastating realization, but liberating.

I can’t deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

My business life is really simple. It’s like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I’ve never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don’t obsess about money ever.

With roasting, you’ve really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there’s so much attention focused on the roasts. It’s like the ‘Super Bowl’ of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children’s ‘resumes’ may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

I can’t obsess, I can’t become somebody who grows old disgracefully, I’m not one of those people that tries to pin back the hands of time.

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I’m better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn’t matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there’s a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they’re shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

If you are thinking every day, ‘I have to get to the gym’ and ‘I have to lose this weight,’ and that’s all you think about and you obsess over it, it’s not healthy.

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don’t know where it’s taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you’re making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you’ll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you’re in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.

I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don’t obsess about it.

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over – I’ve had long hair my entire life.

I don’t go around straightening pictures or anything like that, but I do obsess about the safety of those I love, particularly the kids.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

Everything in moderation. I keep a healthy body, a healthy look. It’s important not to be obsessive about anything – fitness, training, eating – because then you end up focusing on only that. And you can’t obsess about anything when you’re on the road.

When you’re doing something that you think – that you know – is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

My look is relaxed, and while I love fashion, I don’t obsess about it. I don’t have set rules when it comes to dressing, and I don’t mind where my clothes are from.

I think I was lucky in that I wasn’t one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

If you tell me I can’t eat something, I’ll obsess over it and end up overeating!

I obsess over things… especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

I don’t obsess about my weight. I just know I’ve got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

It’s not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.

My mum took me to the theatre a lot, and I’d obsess over them for weeks after. She took me to see ‘The Blue Room’ at The Royal Exchange when I was 13, and that was a profound moment for me – I remember really wanting to be an actor. It really spoke to me like nothing else had before.

I know some people obsess about their appearance but I don’t – it’s not something that bothers me.

I think I’ve done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it’s weird: I’m thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don’t obsess about it.

I’ve always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

When you obsess about fitness goals they become unhealthy and impossible to achieve.

There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.

If you want to be a songwriter, you’ve got to obsess over it.

I had a stutter ’till… I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

I’m thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I’m proud to represent it, but I don’t obsess over it as a category.

We’re simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that’s what we’re seeing.

If you obsess about one thing, you’re just going to miss the broader picture.

I’m pretty casual, but I’m starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

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.

I was actually shooting ‘Warm Bodies’ on the day that ’50/50′ came out, which I don’t recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn’t obsess all day and be checking how ’50/50′ was doing!

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.