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Love Quote by Gates McFadden

"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser"

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Obsession is doing a lot of work here: not as pathology, but as a punchy self-portrait of craft. Gates McFadden frames intensity as her default setting, the engine behind a life that ricochets between gardening, architecture, and music. The list isn’t random. It sketches a mind that loves systems (architecture), texture and care (gardening), rhythm and emotion (music). Together they signal a performer who’s less interested in “talent” as a mysterious gift than in the disciplined, almost tactile pleasure of getting something right.

The slyest move is the closer: “I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.” It’s funny because it’s humble, and because it collapses the prestige ladder. Hairdressing is intimate, technical, deadline-driven, and client-facing - basically acting’s backstage cousin. The line lets her say: I’m not precious about my art; I’m obsessive about the work. It also nods to how much performance lives in surface details - silhouette, texture, presentation - and how those details become identity. For an actress whose most iconic role is wrapped up in futurist competence and controlled presentation, the hairdresser joke lands as a wink at image-making as labor, not magic.

Contextually, it reads like an antidote to the “muse” narrative that often clings to actors, especially women. McFadden positions herself as a maker across domains, someone whose curiosity doesn’t stay in its lane. The subtext: take me seriously not because I’m famous, but because I’m relentless.

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McFadden, Gates. (2026, January 17). I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-a-lot-of-things-and-im-pretty-much-61411/

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McFadden, Gates. "I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-a-lot-of-things-and-im-pretty-much-61411/.

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"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-a-lot-of-things-and-im-pretty-much-61411/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Gates McFadden (born March 2, 1949) is a Actress from USA.

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