What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
I`ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were...
Ambrose Bierce
When you`re dead, you`re dead. That`s it" "If there is a supreme being, he`s crazy." "In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it`s a fact." "Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." "The diaphragm ...
Marlene Dietrich
... all my movies are created because I`m fascinated by a subject. Sometimes I think there`s just a certain obsession about it all - when you want to do something just for the sake of it. A lot of directors are like that. I`m just very fortunate that most...
Roland Emmerich
I do think the Olympics are a curiously male obsession. Who can run the fastest from here to here? You know what I think? Who gives? Because if you`re not running to catch a bus or running to buy me a bunch of flowers, I don`t care. Her thoughts on the Ol...
Romola Garai
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There`s a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
Sigourney Weaver
But if I have an obsession at all, it is with hands. I love hands and I love lips. I never cast lipless actors. So Kenneth Branagh, no thank you. It`s a weird thing but I do have these two obsessions.
Mira Nair
Sometimes, I think you`re better off not being married today. When you see your married friends split up, it`s devastating. Call it scared! Call it an obsession. But I took it for granted I was going to marry a girl I went with for nine years. That is, un...
Paul Lynde
[Criticizing Hollywood`s obsession with youth]: "The problem today, and I think it`s a very dangerous one for the people concerned, is that there are quite large numbers of very young men and women from 18 to 30, and they are playing very large parts in h...
Christopher Lee
This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers` lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform. [On his Broadway show Martin Short: Fame B...
Martin Short
The only thing that I`m obsessed with is sleeping and, actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I love sleeping so much that I could do it 12 hours a day if I didn`t have to turn on the alarm clock...and still, sometimes...
Christian Bale
It`s true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it`s a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman, sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos
It`s true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it`s a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman, sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos
They [the Coen Brothers] have an obsession with pancakes. It`s a Midwestern thing, I guess. I had never had pancakes. I grew up in Sweden, and I`m not a big fan of pancakes.
Peter Stormare
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they`re getting older, et cetera.
Sela Ward
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?
Ahmad Fawzi
While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn`t call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, `Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...`
Jill Kelly
While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn`t call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, `Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...`
Jill Kelly
What I`m trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It`s my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it`s very much alive.
Pete Townshend
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Andre Nel
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Alderman Dana McLendon
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
Yahoo Serious
The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don`t have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.
Joni Mitchell
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
