Obsession Quotations

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

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.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

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 was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

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.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

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

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

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

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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?'

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

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.

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

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

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

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.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

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.

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 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.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

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.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

I'm obsessed with books.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Let's face it. The obsession that the industry, especially cable channels, have to stories about missing, pretty white girls has gotten a little ridiculous. I don't know that the solution, though, is to start covering every missing black, Hispanic and Asian woman, too. Perhaps this is a moment for editors to take a moment and say, hey, wait, are we really doing the right thing here?

One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy dogs. There are so many dogs that need a good home. And this sounds crazy, but I really believe they know what is happening and are appreciative, and I just think they make for the best pets.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.