In this post, you will find great Obsessed Quotes from famous people, such as Daniel Libeskind, Brandon Boyd, George C. Wolfe, Ainsley Harriott, Maurice Sendak. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
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.
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They’re concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They’re concerned about a plundering country. They’re concerned about a decaying, dying country.
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that.
I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
I’m obsessed with ‘Call The Midwife.’
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.
I’m obsessed with ‘Rocky.’ We went 13 times to the theater.
I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
I’m obsessed with eyeliner – the darker and kohl-ier, the better.
I’ve never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
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 kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.
I don’t fear death. I’m not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
High school is when I started to get my sense of fashion together. My queen was Candice Swanepoel, who is a friend of mine now, which is kind of funny, but in high school, I was obsessed. I love her street style: she is always in cool boyfriend jeans, boots, and an awesome coat, which is very much like what I wear.
Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.
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 was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I’ve been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that’s obsessed with one thing, unless it’s, like, jeans, it’s very dangerous. Everyone’s obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It’s ridiculous.
It’s a choice – there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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’.
As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, ‘Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?’
The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
I’m obsessed by coffee.
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I’ve been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard ‘Baby Don’t Cry,’ I’ll never forget.
Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men – whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks – are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
I’ve always been obsessed by beef jerky.
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.
My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it’s pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I’m obsessed with the mid ’60s era, even ’70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.
I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it’s definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I’ve always gravitated towards that feeling.
I used to be obsessed with race. I’m more obsessed with class now.
Why is everyone so obsessed with attracting the young? The Telegraph, Radio 4 – everyone wants a younger audience when everyone knows the population is getting older and older, and that older people have more dosh than young people.
Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don’t make the right decisions.
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.
I’m obsessed with horrible movies.
I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he’s so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal.
I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I’m obsessed with them.
I’m definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
I’ve constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I’m just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It’s exhilarating.
I’m not going to deny it. I’m a neat person, there’s no question. But I don’t become obsessed with it.
I’m kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I’m not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
I’m obsessed with ‘Top Chef‘.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.
I am obsessed with Green Tidings deodorant – it’s this natural deodorant.
I’m part of the crew obsessed with ‘The Wire.’ Like, I’m not over that yet.
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn’t really into books.
The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.
You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it’s going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You’re going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I’ve been collecting shoes for a long time.
People are just obsessed with other people’s lives. I don’t know whether it’s kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow… I really couldn’t tell you.
I’m really obsessed with ‘Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares.’ I really don’t know why.
People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you’ve got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box.
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.
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 was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
I really didn’t get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to ‘Starman’ and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.
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.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
I’m so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I’m obsessed with him.
I’m too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I’m getting to do something I love.
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, ‘What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?’
I am a big fan of vampires. I’ve always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
I have always been obsessed with workouts.
I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on ‘Oxygene’ should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.
I’ve always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.
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.
I’m not Catholic. I don’t believe in God. But at the same time, I’m obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
I’m obsessed with radio. It’s a good start to Sunday morning.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again.
My mom was obsessed with Joni Mitchell; I grew up listening to so much of her music. But it was never a prerogative to emulate her.
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 this show called ‘Workaholics.’
I’m probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.
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.
People who are obsessed amuse me.
If you don’t have obsessions, don’t write. my characters are obsessed.
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 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’ve always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
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 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.
Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.
I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don’t want a different you; they want a different story.
I love when people become obsessed with ‘Downton.’
I’m obsessed with the idea of social TV.
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
I was obsessed with politics in the ’80s. I’ve recovered and I’m feeling much better now, thank you.
You have to remember that for more than half my life – probably until my children were born – acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.
I’ve always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn’t mean anything professionally.
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.
In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical – whether it deals directly with the author’s experience or not – because it captures what we’re obsessed with while working on that particular piece.
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
My friends have always called me ‘Mr. Thorough,’ in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
I’m obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I’ve literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.
When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher – obsessed!
While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform – primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.
I’m just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
In that early-love stage, you’re in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with ‘What does he think?’ ‘Does he like me?’ ‘Does he think I’m fat?’
People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth.
All my life I’ve encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn’t afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
We know that the British public are obsessed with class.
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.
My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
Two things I’m obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you’ll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I’ve listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
I’m obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
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.
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.
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.
I’m obsessed by film. I’m obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.
I’m obsessed with giving the audience something they don’t see coming.
My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It’s something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
I’m only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
I have to say, I’m sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don’t really have an album – I have a playlist.
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.
I’m more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that’s just how it is.
I love to do three easy things in the morning: I’ll wash my face, I usually tone it, and then I’ll put a little bit of moisturizer on it – not tons, because I have really oily skin. I don’t have specific products I’m obsessed with; I just try different things. That’s how I’ve always been.
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.
Because I’m a walker, natural history is my subject; I’ve always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
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.
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I’m not going to play guitar I’m going to play drums. And if I’m not going to play drums, I’m going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
I’m obsessed with sushi.
I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with ‘SNL’ growing up.
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can’t say it came from hard-nosed business analysis… It was just something I really want to see built.
I was obsessed with ‘The Sound of Music.’ I always feel nostalgic watching it.
Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Cleopatra.’ She has the same bone structure. I’m kind of obsessed with ‘Jersey Shore.’ People don’t give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
I remember watching ‘I Love Lucy‘ with my little brother. We were obsessed with ‘I Love Lucy.’ And I just remember thinking, ‘I want to do that.’ I love old comedic actresses – Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.
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’m obsessed with not chucking away food. I’m lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroots, cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce. I’m trying to get into blanching it and freezing so I don’t have to buy veg over the winter, but then you need loads of freezers, and that’s not ideal.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.
My partner doesn’t read. He’s not illiterate – he just chooses not to read – and I love reading. I’m obsessed with reading.
I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
I’m a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all – and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
Recently I started to appreciate my body a bit more from before I had kids. But it completely changed, and I have had to work hard at getting it back to where it used to be…. I used to be obsessed with working out.
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There’s photos from our high school musicals, and I’m comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar‘s costume.
I’m obsessed with Lady Gaga. I saw her at the Alexander Wang fashion show after-party, and I think she’s the nicest person ever.
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls – and the Victorians – the idea of wistful, dark romance.
‘Summer Heights High’ is one of my favourite shows of all time. I’m obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.
My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming – fixated on creating – the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
I’m obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
‘La Vie en Rose‘ is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I’m so desperately obsessed with her work.
Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.
I’m not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It’s surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
I’m obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!
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.
I don’t know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It’s so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don’t do that. I don’t go looking for stuff that I’m interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie’s about. It’s so much more fun to be surprised.
I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don’t quite get it. Guys who just don’t quite get it.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I’m kind of obsessed with food – I really am.
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.
I’ve always been obsessed with skincare, so representing Shiseido, the skincare powerhouse, is both an honour and a dream come true. I love the way my skin feels every day and every night using Shiseido products.
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with ‘Cagney and Lacey.’
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.
I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
I got my hair braided at this event once, and when I got the pictures back from it, I just became obsessed with them. They’re kind of my thing now.
Bruno Mars, I’m kind of obsessed with him.
I’ve always been obsessed with the art of transformation.
I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn’t pretty enough.
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can’t depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn’t that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
Sci-fi fans are the best fans you can have. You could be doing the worst piece of tat which might have a robot or vampire in, and some people will become obsessed by it and know every little detail. ‘Being Human‘ has crossed over from sci-fi fans to being a drama that everyone can enjoy.
Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I’d done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.
I’m obsessed with neon sneakers.
I’m obsessed with my parents.
Britain is obsessed with political correctness.
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.
When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, ‘Pinhead and Basket Case.’
‘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.
And if I’m honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like ’92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
We’ve always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That’s really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it’s really sweet. She has her own little personal library.
At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we’d do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing ‘Hero‘ by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We’d do it as a duet, and it’s the first I remember performing.
Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm’s slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.
It’s really annoying when you’re trying to get to know someone and she doesn’t pay attention to you because she’s obsessed with her phone.
‘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.
I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn’t tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn’t get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.
I ended up having my first girlfriend when I was 13, and she was obsessed with Justin Bieber. I remember watching the ‘Baby’ music video and being so jealous of him. So I posted a cover of ‘One Time‘ on YouTube, and she loved it.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn’t know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
Certainly, I know what it’s like to be obsessed. I haven’t always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn’t always there. But, you know, that’s not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem… Maybe.
I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles – and I would love for that to continue.
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer.
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
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 ‘Thelma and Louise,’ and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.
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. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you’re doing, the more that’ s an important thing.
I’m obsessed with books.
I’m obsessed with Radiohead. They’re just the greatest band on the planet.
Oracle is obsessed with security. It’s an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
In order to be totally spontaneous, you can’t be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you’re inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there’s no formula.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
I’m obsessed with musicals.
There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I’m better off not stressing about my body all the time.
I am obsessed with Matt Healy.
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.
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It’s isn’t the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don’t think.
I’m obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
I still want to direct. That’s my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.
I’m obsessed with jackets.
I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.
I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic – not the film, the actual boat. I’d draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn’t have sunk.
I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
We’re kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There’s live coverage of it.
I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
I’m pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
Chicken and waffles! I’m obsessed with those.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I remember spending one summer being utterly obsessed with trying to get the legendary unreachable ‘Ice Key’ from ‘Banjo-Kazooie.’
