Top 38 Best Bob Hoskins Quotes
#1. Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
Bob Hoskins
#2. Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.
Bob Hoskins
#3. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
Bob Hoskins
#5. It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.
Iris Apfel
#6. What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.
Bob Hoskins
#7. The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.
Bob Hoskins
#8. I started my career by becoming a stalker, watching women in the street, the way they greet each other. I thought if I could capture some of that expression, that depth of emotion, it will make me interesting to watch as an actor.
Bob Hoskins
#9. I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
Bob Hoskins
#10. How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.
Jessica Abel
#11. One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
Bob Hoskins
#12. The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World Court was quite correct in condemning the United States as an international terrorist state.
Noam Chomsky
#13. These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton Chekhov
#14. I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
Bob Hoskins
#15. I'm Winnie the Pooh - that's as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It's about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.
Bob Hoskins
#16. I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
Bob Hoskins
#17. One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
Philip Yancey
#18. If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
Bob Hoskins
#20. The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is.
The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.
Neil T. Anderson
#22. And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.
Judi Dench
#23. We are at the crossroads, my little outlaw,
and this is the map of my heart, the landscape
after cruelty
Richard Siken
#25. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#26. Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
Bob Hoskins
#27. The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#28. I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.
Bob Hoskins
#29. Although your marrows look very good, it's not them I'm interested in.. (The Honesty Box) Love Potion
Samantha Bacchus
#30. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
Bob Hoskins
#33. Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.
Bob Hoskins
#34. Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
Judi Dench
#35. What I knew, adored, and fell for was a fantasy. He did not exist in human terms.
Coco J. Ginger
#36. It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
Bob Hoskins
#37. Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
Bob Hoskins
#38. You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
Amy Bloom
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