Frank McCourt Quotes

Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I'm just working without distraction. It's just the way I'm wired.

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

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

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.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

Once I get an opponent, I'm locked into him.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

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

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

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.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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.