Quotes About Obsession

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

Adrian has golf, Tom has surfing, Gwen has Gavin, I guess, and this is all I have - I wake, eat and sleep No Doubt.

I remember 'Rain Man' with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lifted off the tanker. I was obsessed with this car. Absolutely obsessed with this car. It was my dream, and to finally drive one and own one was incredible.

I wore out the Broadway 'Tommy' recording. I just loved it.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

I'm a fashion hoarder. I have a ton of stuff, and I like to cycle it out to have room for more stuff.

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.

I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.

Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

I have tons of Telecasters but also about 50 Les Pauls, six or seven SGs, and a bunch of Gretsches.

I was physically addicted to 'Tony Hawk's American Wasteland' for PS2.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something - that's when you've got to learn how to balance.

My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obsessed with Barney. Barney was actually my first crush... He's, like, literally better than all the guys in the whole world.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.