Bob Hoskins Quotes

• Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.

  Bob Hoskins

  Jobs, Home, Best Job

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Fall, Doe, Who We Are

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Actors, Done, Ifs

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• It's your life, live it your way.

  Bob Hoskins

  Way

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2011.

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Play, Dictator, Middle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to learn to hallucinate.

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• I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

  Bob Hoskins

  Feminist, Very Strong

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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

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  Faces, Rich, Handy

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Giving, Film, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Actors, Serious, Entertainers

  "Bob Hoskins obituary" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2014.

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• 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

  Passion, Branches, Physics

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Spirit, Transformation, Christ

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Character, Men, Historical

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• 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

  Kids, Two, Easy

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• I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

  Bob Hoskins

  Men, Emotional, Expression

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Film, Forgotten

  "Bob Hoskins interview: 'I'm as calm as a Buddhist monk'". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2001.

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• 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

  Kids, Possibility, Monogamy

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I'd say I am partial to women.

  Bob Hoskins

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• 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

  Expression, Careers, Interesting

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• 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

  I Love You, Simple, Men

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• 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.

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  Sexy, Bags, My Family

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• I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

  Bob Hoskins

  Flower, Very Romantic, Shops

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

  Bob Hoskins

  Actors, Raf, Hollywood

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