It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin...
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of ...
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
