Top 99 Obsessive Quotes

When you’re obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy… it’s like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that’s what nerdiness really is – its people who don’t just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don’t understand but they can’t stop looking at.

When you’re making movies you’ve got to get obsessive.

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.

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.

When I’m working, I’m not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself – and I would miss the chance to seize it.

I crave the variety, I really do. I’d probably say standup as I think that’s what I do best, if I may say so. But it can be a really self-absorbed, obsessive way to live your life, whereas doing theatre is very collaborative and creative and intense, I’d hate to miss out on that.

I made a film called ‘Bad Timing’ that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

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.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I’ve been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

It’s always so difficult when you’ve left your kids to go to work every day – you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I’m obsessive because I love what I do.

I love to learn; I really do. We’d study something in class, and I’d take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

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.

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon’s ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’

Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I’m obsessive. If it’s ‘Star Wars,’ if it’s ‘Transformers,’ if it’s the Flyers, I geek out.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, ‘Let’s talk about something that matters’.

I’m an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

Both of my books, ‘Love Is a Mix Tape’ and ‘Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,’ are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I’m an obsessive music fan, I’m always seeking out new sonic thrills.

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

Because Japan has to import most of its energy, and because of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, the country has an almost obsessive interest in tackling energy issues.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from ‘Homeland’ when I’m writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

It wasn’t until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.

There’s always one character, I think, in every town who’s the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.

I’m as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

I keep my skin clean and moisturised. While shooting, my skin has to put up with severe make up and lights for hours at a stretch. So I am obsessive about taking my make-up off as soon as I am done.

For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about it. The problem was I couldn’t really sing. I think one day I sang from a different part of my body, from my gut for the first time, and I was like, ‘Oh! That’s how you’re supposed to do it.’

I had a Tourette’s period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn’t get out of my brain.

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I’ll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.

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.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don’t know what you’re going to find. In fact, you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it.

I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I’ve been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.

I’m really proud of ‘Private Life.’ It’s about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They’re on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it’s even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I’m after. I’ve always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I’ll try a perfect hero, but it’s a real stretch for me. I like ’em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook – and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I do my best to depend on my gut. If you sit with a decision long enough, your gut/soul will tell you what path to take.

I’ve been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

You can’t keep away from the public too much, but you had to be protected to some degree and I saw that in Paul a lot. People were obsessive about the Beatles. It’s a hard thing to have to deal with being that famous.

I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it’s going to mean in the future.

Of course I don’t think I have it made by any means. I’m too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

I’ve always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

I’m an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ soundtrack or ‘Into The Woods.’

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.

I’m an obsessive person. I like intensity.

I’ve got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I’m kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I’m not obsessive over it.

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

When I was younger, I’d be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, ‘Go home!’ Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can’t do it quite as often. I’ve got gigs; I can’t have my hobo beard! But if you love what you’re doing, you can’t stop. It’s obsessive.

My very first movie, ‘Mary Poppins,’ which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced – it made me into this obsessive, creative creature… I don’t know any other way of putting it.

I can’t live without Radio 4. It’s worth the entire licence fee. I’m an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when ‘Thought for the Day’ starts, as that’s a step too far.

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.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I’m afraid of.

India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven’t graduated within six years probably never will.

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you’re working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

I’m turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on ‘Coronation Street’ – a really obsessive fan.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, ‘No, you’re not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you’re going back into it with a heart that’s not obsessive over it.’

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I’m an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don’t know if that’s nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that’s kind of cool, actually.

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I’m not obsessive; I don’t play in the dark, but even that’s not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He’s an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn’t. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.

When I’m making a film, I’m obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That’s all I’m eating, breathing, living at that moment.

I think so much about everything. I’m obsessive.

I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.

I’m an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it – that’s what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don’t try my hardest to be like this.

I’m very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I’m obsessive compulsive. I don’t mind admitting it.

I’m kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a ‘Taxi Driver,’ or some Nicholas Ray movie, like ‘In a Lonely Place,’ seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

For me, collages manage to – it satisfies all of my madness, like I’m able to make these obsessive things, but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements. I don’t know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there’s sort of a power.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He’s extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.

It’s always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they’re eccentric because of it.

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.

I can be a bit extreme. I’ll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

People get obsessive and nuts. It’s scary.