Compulsive Quotes

"I want to live in Paris. I want to learn to ice-skate and to box. I want to get a degree in Egyptology. I would like to not have to say "Like, oh my God!" in any movies. I would like to have a day go by without people screaming various obscenities about body parts. I`d like to still have Bug and Fester, my Boston terriers. I think I`d like to be with my boyfriend, except (laughs) I`m pretty commitment-shy. I`d like to please my father, who used to be in the Children of God, and do at least one more "porno" film - which is what he called The Doom Generation. I`d like to start some sort of counselling program for girls - when I was that age I was always told that I was gonna burn in hell. I would like to lose the guilt I have for compulsive spending. I would like to stop being addicted to diet hot chocolate."

I write the script first, to see if it`s even vaguely interesting, and then if the script becomes compulsive, then I can do the film.

I want to live in Paris. I want to learn to ice-skate and to box. I want to get a degree in Egyptology. I would like to not have to say Like, oh my God!" in any movies. I would like to have a day go by without people screaming various obscenities about body parts. I`d like to still have Bug and Fester, my Boston terriers. I think I`d like to be with my boyfriend, except (laughs) I`m pretty commitment-shy. I`d like to please my father, who used to be in the Children of God, and do at least one more "porno" film - which is what he called The Doom Generation. I`d like to start some sort of counselling program for girls - when I was that age I was always told that I was gonna burn in hell. I would like to lose the guilt I have for compulsive spending. I would like to stop being addicted to diet hot chocolate."

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

I`m a hygiene freak. I`m like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

The problem is, we fear negative consequences a lot more than we value positive ones. What happens to an athlete is that if he wore a particular sock, or pair of shirts, or did some ritual, and had success, he`ll continue to do that. That act reduces the anxiety associated with not doing it. It`s the exact same mechanism, clinically, we find in obsessive-compulsive people.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.