Tim Minchin Quotes

Its a fine line between love and stalking.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

Never love for me, only obsession.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

Every woman has had the guy she's broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you've been the person who has done those things.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

No matter what a guy says, if he shows up at all the places you're at, he's hooked.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

In high school, I was crazy in love, and I would make handmade construction paper valentines every month for our monthly anniversaries. Then I'd go early in the morning and tape one to her car. It sounds sweet, but let's be honest: it was a little weird. I was probably crossing some lines.

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.