Obsessed Quotes by Mark Hart, Alex Stapleton, Carl Sagan, Marcus Brigstocke, Francis Chan, KaDee Strickland and many others.
I’m a big genre fan. I’m a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I’m obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.
I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
I’m just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer.
Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say ‘passion,’ but I really was obsessed; I really didn’t want to do anything else.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.
It’s really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it’s really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I’m really interested in how we can adjust that.
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I’m obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
It’s very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there’s lots more.
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
Still though, I think if you’re not self-obsessed, you’re probably boring.
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
I’m a responsible soul. But anyone who has the chance to spend time with me can see I’m still 22 years old. I love talking about clothes and guys and shoes and makeup. Plus, I’m obsessed with anything Hello Kitty!
My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.
I’m obsessed with ‘Homeland.’ It’s not even okay.
‘That’s What She Said’ is not Hollywood‘s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
Other than the ‘Sesame Street‘ soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I’d discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.
Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker
Some people I’ve talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, ‘Hey, do you want to make a movie?’ And that’s how I made friends, and it was also my escape.
In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.
I’m definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that’s it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don’t leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
I’m obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
‘Stay with Me’ started out being very political, largely because I’m a little obsessed with politics.
A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn’t depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
I’ve been obsessed with The Beatles since I was two.
How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don’t mean to.
When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you’re supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to ‘Cirque du Soleil.’ I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.
I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.
I’m probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’ I was always very fascinated with the people who were on ‘What’s My Line?’ and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.
I’m obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It’s food that I adore above all others.
I’m obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!
It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.
The problem with most people! Is that you’re not obsessed with improvement.
I’m not obsessed with the idea of doing what you’re supposed to be doing when you’re a rapper. Walking around with cash that you haven‘t even provisioned for tax. Spending all of your time in the designer store to create some weird impression. I’m not interested, bro. I just like making music, and that’s it.
We become obsessed with ‘truth’ when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with ‘freedom’ when discussing conduct…Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism… . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth… . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. … Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.
It’s so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.
I still want to direct. That’s my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.
It doesn’t help that we are three generations of actresses, who are always obsessed with losing time. But on the other side, historically, women have much more time on their hands than before. It goes together-the more time we have, the more we’re flipping out about how we’ve got to deal with it.
I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
I’m obsessed with Juice Press – they’re everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it’s crazy.
You become so obsessed, and that’s not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it’s the whole world.
I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you’ve conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.
I’ve always been obsessed by beef jerky.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that.
I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I’m obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.
When I was younger, I was always obsessed with nails.
In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.
Game designers are obsessed with emotion. How do we create the emotions that we want gamers to feel, and how can we really make it this intense, emotional experience?
There are very few things in my life that I can’t have if I want them. So when I see something that I can’t have, immediately I’m obsessed by it.
Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
Here in New York, we’re media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it’s just a festival of information. We’re all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can’t imagine that it’s like that everywhere else.
I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it’s the most technologically literate thing that we have.
Bruno Mars, I’m kind of obsessed with him.
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we’re not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.
It was a really wonderful experience [at Hi Honey, I’m Home show]. I loved Nick At Nite at the time, and I was obsessed with watching it, so just to meet some of the more experienced stars of the older shows was a real treat and a thrill for me.
People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.
I’m absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I’m a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It’s a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Even when I was five years old, I was obsessed with space.
I’m obsessed with being on time. If you say, “Let’s meet up at 10 a.m.,” I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.
I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? – like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he’s shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he’s also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He’s obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that’s rare in directors.
I’m very obsessed with ‘The Real Housewives‘ franchise. It’s a bad obsession.
[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.
Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor, not a body builder.
It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with ‘Cagney and Lacey.’
We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It’s ridiculous. It’s that visibility. I’m confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.
I’m definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn’t dye my hair or wear make-up.
When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the ‘Batman‘ TV show in the ’60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn’t get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn’t understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling.
Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.
I definitely have a Google obsession of Juliette Binoche. I’m obsessed. I’ll read everything she’s ever said. I can tell you anything you want to know about Juliette Binoche, or Jack White. Those are my two creepy obsessions.
I’m obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, ‘If she’s the best female rapper then I’ve got to be better than her.
I’m kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a ‘peace dividend’ that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
I always have at least four different lip products in my purse – I’m obsessed! I’m into L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge ‘Unending Kiss.’ It’s a very soft and natural pink color. I’ve also discovered Burt’s Bees tinted lip balm in ‘sweet violet.’ I like it because it’s very natural and feels good on my lips.
Don’t call a girl obsessed when she’s in love.
When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it’s very powerful.
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.
I’m obsessed with smells even more than makeup.
I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master‘s degree in conducting.
I don’t think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else – and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I’m always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary.
I’m a huge fan of the ’70s. I’m obsessed with the music of that time.
We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn’t entirely understand the other person’s obsession, it didn’t matter, because we understood our own.
I’m obsessed with fuzz pedals.
Hiring and retaining talent in the tech industry is expensive and vital. Those people have real power over their bosses, especially because it is often fairly easy for them to find work elsewhere, and employee walkouts are terrible PR for these leaders who are often obsessed with their public image.
When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.
I’m always trying to ask myself both “Who am I as an individual?” and “What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?” How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I’m really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.
I’d feel more of the pressures of daily life, obsessed about finding a job or love. Maybe I’ve taken these things for granted. I go through a lot of other things in the music industry, but “daily life” is a whole different war to fight.
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives – each project can involve years of research.
Some felt as if ‘Charlie Hebdo‘ was obsessed with its ‘Screw Allah‘ stance. It’s a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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.
I love ‘The Wire‘. I can’t think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Get Smart’.
The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls – and the Victorians – the idea of wistful, dark romance.
As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.
I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
I’ve been a fan of ‘High Maintenance‘ since it was on Vimeo. My husband and I were obsessed with it. It’s one of the best things ever made, period. It’s a completely unique perspective.
I’ve listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. It opened up a whole world of this music that I’m now obsessed with.
There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.
As I’ve said a million times, I’m obsessed with Liya Kebede’s LemLem line. The pieces, made by artisans in her native Ethiopia, are perfect for summer! I’m also a big fan of jewelry line Lulu Frost. Designer Lisa Salzer and I have been friends forever, and I love how she incorporates vintage pieces into her jewelry.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I’m like the ultimate fan.
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I’m strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I’m obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There’s photos from our high school musicals and things, and I’m comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar’s costume.
I’ve always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human – like mermaids and Minotaurs – because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.
I’m really obsessed with the past.
I’m very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was ‘Gone with the Wind.’
I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.
When we’re obsessed with someone, it’s never about them. It’s about us hating ourselves. And that’s generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who’s overcompensating with being super happy. But she’s broken.
I’m obsessed with textures. We’re surrounded by so much vinyl that I find myself constantly in pursuit of other textures. One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful.
When I was younger I was obsessed with ‘Star 80,’ and it’s just a great movie – I think I saw it three times in the theater.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I’m obsessed.
I’m obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that’s extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
I’m just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
As a technologist, I’m obsessed with searching for the next killer app.
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don’t think my parents really knew how to protect me.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don’t need to be.
It’s a choice – there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.
As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was ‘Please Please Me.’ I’d have been 13 at the time.
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself – exactly oneself and no one else – and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
I’m not going to deny it. I’m a neat person, there’s no question. But I don’t become obsessed with it.
Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don’t always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.
‘La Vie en Rose‘ is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I’m so desperately obsessed with her work.
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it’s been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.
I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping ‘The Way Back’ screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging moments, and to hold the music back, so it would never lead you to an emotion, and to try to make the emotions as real as I could.
As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like “I’m One” helped me get through high school.
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy’s hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn’t make sense.
As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her – and with any pop star of the ’80s.
I’m obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers – the hardest-working, poorest people in America – are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.
It can be really weird to say, ‘Hey man, let’s make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.’ But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it.”
For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity‘s physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.
I am truly obsessed with Lena Dunham. I find everything about her unique and refreshing. She is a brilliant, hilarious and honest writer who is not afraid to make her audience uncomfortable.
A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.
I don’t think about why I do what I do, or why I started doing what I do, because I’m so obsessed with doing it right now, and what it means to me right now.
I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.
I’m obsessed with horrible movies.
I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She’s, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.
Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.
I’m obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.
I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.
Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
I’m obsessed with concerts.
I’m obsessed with getting married, but I don’t even have a boyfriend.
The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.
I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms… my entire body is hairless.
One of the things we’ve learned about Donald Trump is he totally obsessed by the media. He is like the media critic-in-chief. He watches more cable news than people who work in cable news do. And he’s extremely thin skinned about it.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.
I’m probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I’d still love him, I realized that’s how he sees me or at least how he should!
Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.
Even in the most market-obsessed society, we’re still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I’m obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I’m distracted. I’m interested in that so I don’t sit home and think, “Gee, life is meaningless. We’re all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed.”
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It’s very nice.
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
I’ll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I’ll be utterly into it, and I’ll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I’ll just forget about it, and I’ll be onto something else.
At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense of someone trying to break out of an institution but then became interested in Joyces experimental way of writing.
I’m obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He’s unbelievable. I think he’s a modern day Brando. Every movie that he’s done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He’s extremely fascinating.
People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth.
People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God’s Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.
I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.
I’m obsessed by Instagram.
The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.
My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I’m saying at this moment. I don’t know. It’s not something I’m obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
I was obsessed with Lil’ Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn’t see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.
I’m obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective…. There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.
I love to eat and I don’t believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I’m not obsessed with it, I don’t have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.
I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
We are obsessed with image. I don’t think we should take it that seriously.
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
If we mammals don’t get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it’s not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I’m just amazed we don’t pace and fret about it all the time.
People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
I love when people become obsessed with Downton.
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I’m convinced it’s not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It’s a bit like young girls and horses.
I was a real tomboy for most of my life. Then I went through a really girlie period, then through a goth phase. I was so obsessed with my hair and makeup, and I was having so much fun as a teenager playing with my look.
I like that show ‘Ray Donovan’ – I’m obsessed with that. He’s in Hollywood, he’s some kind of a fixer, but he’s also kind of a thug. And ‘Scandal,’ the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
‘Await Your Reply‘ by Dan Chaon. I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don’t share that obsession, I can’t recommend this book highly enough.
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the intransigence of the Afrikaner Nationalist Government, obsessed with improbable ideas of revolution.
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
I’ve always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn’t mean anything professionally.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
I’m obsessed with musicals.
I’m slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing… I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I’d love to play one.
I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late ’90s, I was all about reruns of ‘The Price Is Right.’ I knew all the prices from the ’70s.
Before I got Madeline, I used to see dog people who were so obsessed, and I’d think, Oh, that’s so sad. But now, here I am, talking about her all the time. I even dress her up in little outfits; I’m madly in love with her.
The British Labour Party has always had a very strong “Atlanticist component,” with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He’s clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.
What we know is Megyn Kelly is totally obsessed with Mr. Trump.
My guilty pleasure is competitive cooking reality shows. I don’t like cooking shows when it’s just about cooking. It has to be competitive – they’re fighting and yelling at each other. I am obsessed with those shows, and I have no idea why.
I’m part of the crew obsessed with ‘The Wire.’ Like, I’m not over that yet.
Drama is what I’m really obsessed by. It’s what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I’ll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during ‘School of Comedy’.
I love love. I’m, like, obsessed with it.
I’m obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It’s weird; it’s a weird thing that I didn’t grow out of.
I’d love to work with Joan Cusack again – I’m obsessed with Joan Cusack.
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
What can I say? I’m obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can’t be held responsible for our actions.
Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.
I used to be obsessed with race. I’m more obsessed with class now.
I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
I’m obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.
Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films.
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
I wouldn’t say that I’m particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
I’ve been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan sinceВ The Wire.В He’s so charismatic and talented. It’d be even better—we’d have interracial bisexuality!
I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
I follow all these fashion blogs that are cool and inspire me. I’m not really obsessed with anyone except for the people that I like romantically. I get excited when they post. Sometimes I like to stalk my exes.
She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.
I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
I’m obsessed with that show ‘Call The Midwife‘. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy because every episode is about having babies.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
I am obsessed with my hairstyles.
I’m obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It’s the white trash in me, you know?
Sometimes I won’t put a lot of make up on; I won’t put foundation on. I’ll just pop a bit of blusher on. I’m not obsessed with trying to look like a Victoria’s Secret model – it’s real life.
A lot of people have been saying I am obsessed with the “making history” thing. But it’s what pushes me, it’s what drives me, it’s a huge boost knowing that I am going to be the first. There’s a long list of Olympic champions that have become world champions, but none of them are from England.
I’m kind of obsessed with cool girls.
I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 – to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.
Nobody knows why we’re alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Believe it or not, I used to be obsessed with shoes. I have maybe 50 pairs… until I moved to New York, when I realized I couldn’t walk anywhere in any of them.
I wasn’t Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
I’m obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I’d picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.
I’m obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!
I love the MLB app, because I’m a pretty obsessed baseball fan.
I would like to see the U.S. fighting another war, perhaps in addition to that against terror: a war on poverty, illiteracy, disease and environmental degradation. It is certainly within the power of your country to act on all of these fronts, but, unfortunately, your leaders have become obsessed with a single issue.
I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o’clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.
