Obsessive Quotes · Page 7

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like,…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or…

— Margaret Atwood

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to…

— Louise Erdrich

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have…

— Paula Poundstone

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm…

— Anthony Hopkins

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

— Anne Lamott

It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.…

— Gena Showalter

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

— Simon Helberg

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

— Mick Jagger

I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well,…

— Ricky Jay

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and…

— Charles Stross

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

— Judd Apatow

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive.…

— Jon Favreau

I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!"…

— Lara Stone

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Murray Bartlett

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for…

— Steven Morrissey

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

— Jack O'Connell

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

— Chris Hardwick

“2020 was the year of obsessive hand washing.”

— Steven Magee

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…

— Antony Beevor

[George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did…

— Jay Mohr