Henry Mancini Quotes

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

I'm an all-or-nothing person.

I am a zealot, and I am wildly proud of it.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

There is no point of doing anything if you're not going to do it all the way.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

I like passionate fandom.