Top 100 Hooper Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Hooper

#1. Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

Cary Fukunaga

#2. It was Hooper. The big, pale dog stared urgently into Wayne's face, forepaws on the bed. His damp gaze was unhappy, even stricken.

Joe Hill

#3. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Peter Morgan

#4. I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life.

Joe Sample

#5. Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to Brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea.

Peter Benchley

#6. If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. about you?" Thomas nodded, "I have three names, Mr. McGuire, Thomas Charles Hooper." James smiled back, "That's fine. How old might you be, Thomas?" "I'm seven." "Seven, boy? You're older than we thought," Captain McGuire smiled through the half-truth. "And, where are you from?" Thomas

C. T. Marshall

#8. Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hooper

#9. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

#10. Time doesn't heal all, no matter what they say. And tragedies don't make you stronger. That's another popular lie. They just make you more hardened, less surprised by misfortune.

Kim Hooper

#11. Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

Tom Hooper

#12. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Peter Benchley

#13. Sex is a sacred act which sadly, over the past few decades, has been demeaned and demoralized until it means almost nothing to most people. Veray few still appreciate the emotional and spiritual connection that can and should take place when two bodies and souls are joined together.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#14. My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Tom Hooper

#15. I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

Tom Hooper

#16. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

Kay Hooper

#17. We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

Chloe Hooper

#18. Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Tom Hooper

#19. What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

Tom Hooper

#20. I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Tom Hooper

#21. Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#22. Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

Tom Hooper

#23. The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

Emma Hooper

#24. Without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily

Kay Hooper

#25. If we're doing we're living and if we're living we're winning, right?

Emma Hooper

#26. A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

Tom Hooper

#27. I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

Tobe Hooper

#28. Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as pleasurable as the experience itself.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#29. The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

Marian Hooper Adams

#30. But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

Kay Hooper

#31. The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

Tom Hooper

#32. The earth rests, and remembers.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

#33. Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.

Tom Hooper

#34. The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.

Tobe Hooper

#35. People could say things about Owen. They could. But they don't. We don't. Words are strong. The strongest. Worse than bruises on

Emma Hooper

#36. If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Tom Hooper

#37. Holland seems like a quaint toy.

Marian Hooper Adams

#38. Go do whatever, wherever. Go do it alone, and now, because you want to and you're allowed to and you can.

Emma Hooper

#39. Because sometimes, fantasy is the only way to survive reality. Awol

Karen Amanda Hooper

#40. I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Tobe Hooper

#41. I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.

Tobe Hooper

#42. I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Tom Hooper

#43. I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Tom Hooper

#44. I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

Kay Hooper

#45. There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

Kay Hooper

#46. I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Tom Hooper

#47. The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.

Judith Hooper

#48. Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.

Emma Hooper

#49. Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.

Marian Hooper Adams

#50. I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

Tom Hooper

#51. The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Tobe Hooper

#52. When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Judith Hooper

#53. You can never stop being a mother. Never, never, never.

Emma Hooper

#54. I was put on this earth to love you. I know no other kind of existence bit to live and breathe for your well being. It's who I am, and who I will always be.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#55. The radio was a beautiful thing. It was hodgepodge and patched up on the outside, but on the inside it was filled with voices, filled with people and music and ideas from away, from far away. Otto took a breath and turned it on.

Emma Hooper

#56. He decided not to try to pin her down on that; he had a feeling it was one he wouldn't win. He hadn't known Isabel Adams an hour before reaching the conclusion that she was extremely unlikely to let slip by accident anything she didn't want him to know.

Kay Hooper

#57. What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

Tom Hooper

#58. You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

Tobe Hooper

#59. I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

Tom Hooper

#60. I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Tobe Hooper

#61. Weather is the indisputable ruler of the forest and every living thing in it ...

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

#62. We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn

Kay Hooper

#63. Maybe that's what is means to be human ... forever questioning our certainties.

Kay Hooper

#64. It took them longer, a week or so, to notice the hole in their language that this new word had made. To grasp that there was no term for a parent without a child, a sister without a sister.

Emma Hooper

#65. If you love someone, put them in a circle, because hearts can be broken but circles never end.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#66. With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

Tom Hooper

#67. To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.

Peter Benchley

#68. We're all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren't. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.

Emma Hooper

#69. When you heart and soul are in it, making love is not just special, Maryah
it's magical.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#70. The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Tom Hooper

#71. The pain bursts through Etta like caffeine,

Emma Hooper

#72. I don't even like football.

Tom Hooper

#73. I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

Tom Hooper

#74. I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Tom Hooper

#75. I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

Tobe Hooper

#76. I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Tom Hooper

#77. Sometimes reality is better than dreams

Kay Hooper

#78. My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Tom Hooper

#79. I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

Tom Hooper

#80. After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

#81. The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

Tom Hooper

#82. Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it.

Walter Hooper

#83. You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you're doing something good.

Emma Hooper

#84. Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#85. I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Tom Hooper

#86. I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.

Chloe Hooper

#87. Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

Tom Hooper

#88. The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.

Tom Hooper

#89. The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men - Chan Buddhist

Richard Hooper

#90. ... honor must precede honorariums.

Debora Hooper

#91. So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones.

Mary Hooper

#92. There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

Tom Hooper

#93. I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth could figure a way out of this mess, it'd be Uncle Stevie.

Tobe Hooper

#94. I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Tom Hooper

#95. I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

Tobe Hooper