Hoskins Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.

Krista Tippett

#4. You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was - is - dead and scaring us?

J. Cameron McClain

#5. It is not the absence of hierarchy or the uniformity of decision-making authority that makes an organization fluid. It is the ability to shift and morph those things in the service of accomplishing more.

Jamie Notter

#6. Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. You have to learn to hallucinate,

Bob Hoskins

#8. 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

#9. Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

John Marsden

#10. I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

Bob Hoskins

#11. I believe it's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know.

Mona Eltahawy

#12. Iron might weep, but it did not break.

Susan Dennard

#13. Let pain flow and from pain grow.

Natasha Riley-Noah

#14. 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

#15. I'd say I am partial to women.

Bob Hoskins

#16. Absence, hear thou my protestation
Against that strength,
Distance and length.

John Hoskins

#17. 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

#18. Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.

W.G. Hoskins

#19. A radical is one of whom people say 'He goes too far.' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who 'doesn't go far enough.' Then there is the reactionary, 'one who doesn't go at all.' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Woodrow Wilson

#20. they do not get a price they like at one booth, they just move down the row. This constant downward pressure

Tansy E. Hoskins

#21. 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

#22. Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

Bob Hoskins

#23. 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

#24. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

Bob Hoskins

#26. So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Edward Sapir

#27. Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Bob Hoskins

#28. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

Bob Hoskins

#29. It's your life, live it your way.

Bob Hoskins

#30. What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.

Bob Hoskins

#31. The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

Bob Hoskins

#32. 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

#33. I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Bob Hoskins

#34. Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

Jimmy Carter

#35. I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Bob Hoskins

#36. Poets make the best topographers.

W.G. Hoskins

#37. 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

#38. Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

H. Beam Piper

#39. I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Bob Hoskins

#40. I do think you should change in private. You don't see me ripping off my clothes in front of you, now do you?"
He gave a deep fake sigh. "Sadly, no.

Jennifer Shirk

#41. If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Bob Hoskins

#42. I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

Bob Hoskins

#43. The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Milovan Djilas