Ricky Steamboat Quotes

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

There's no detail too small for me.

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

I'm very meticulous.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

I believe in focusing on details.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

I always watch the work I do.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.