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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
— Tom Ford
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
— D. B. Weiss
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
— Kiese Laymon
For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers.
— Pete Hamill
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
— Dave Navarro
I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
— Daniel Craig
I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
— Tracy Kidder
I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.
— Nicole Kidman
I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
— Anne Lamott
Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.
— Steven Soderbergh
What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
— Harlan Coben
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
— Marilyn Manson
And no, I've not been obsessive enough to keep track of the hours and minutes, or even the seconds, but I've noticed every single one of them.
— Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.
— Chris Hardwick
I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive).
— Amy Surprenant
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
— David Hockney
I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
— Murray Bartlett
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
— Mandy Patinkin
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.
— Alice Eve
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
— David Beckham
although it may seem obsessive I began noticing things and made note of it, knowing what I knew gave us an advantage.
— Charon Lloyd-Roberts
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.
— Elizabeth Cohen
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
— Gangaji
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
— Frederick Lenz
I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.
— Sarah Moss
No more obsessive writing, either, accumulating notebook after notebook like little piles of rabbit turds scattered along a woodland trail.
— Stephen King
Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
— Mandy Patinkin
I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.
— Deepika Padukone
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
— Karan Johar
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
— Hanif Kureishi
Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.
— Robert A. Caro
I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
— Yoko Ono
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
— Cress Williams
I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.
— Colleen McCarty
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
— Lisa Kleypas
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
— Georges Bataille
I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.
— Josh Zuckerman
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
— Theodore Sturgeon
We'll show them that we're not just geeky freaks and obsessive nerds without any social skills.
— Kevin Berry
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
— Richard Ford
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
— Daniel Craig
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
— Phil Spector
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games ... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
— Chet Faker
I become kind of obsessive about research.
— James Franco
It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.
— Moe Cidaly
For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.
— Edmund White
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.
— Willow Madison
I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.
— Lizzy Caplan
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art
— Susan Sontag
Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith.
— Ann Patchett
Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But
— Simon Van Booy
I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.
— Penny Lancaster
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.
— Dave Matthews
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
— Marina Abramovic
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
— Gore Vidal
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
— Kelly Clarkson
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
— Murray Walker
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
— Jonny Wilkinson
Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.
— Kieran Culkin
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
— Shawn Johnson
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
— Cary Cooper
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
— Sarah Stillman
I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.
— David Dastmalchian
Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
— Jodi Picoult
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
— Jack O'Connell
TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.
— Bryant McGill
I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
— Margaret Stohl
My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.
— Andrew Davidson
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
— Zachary Quinto
Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.
— Jim Butcher
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.
— Maya Banks
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
— Robin Wasserman
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional ... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
— Michel Faber
He's famous for being obsessive about details.
— Matt Damon
I get a little too obsessive with work.
— Eli Roth
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
— Kiefer Sutherland
I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.
— Shepard Fairey
I am not obsessive about anything except my health.
— Linda Gray
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
— Susanne Bier
Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.
— Heather McCollum
I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
— Bobby Davro
I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.
— Trinny Woodall
I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
— Priyanka Chopra