I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.
When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!
I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.
I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.
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.
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
I've always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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.
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
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.
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.
I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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 have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.
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.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.