Quotes About Obsession

The microscopic world became my obsession.

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.

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

I've had a lifelong passion, and really obsession, with professional wrestling since I was a very small kid.

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

I have a very distinct memory of 'ExciteBike' and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.

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

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?'

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

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.

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.

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

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

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

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

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'