Quotes About Obsession

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.

I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I sometimes clean my ears up to five times a day. Even having buds in the same room makes me want to have a go. When I'm in India, the cheap ones freak me out because I worry they'll drop off inside my ear. In the U.K., I like Johnson's.

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.

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim.

Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

There's male groupies - guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?