Taylor Schilling Quotes

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

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

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

Do whatever you do intensely.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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

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.

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.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.