Bob Hoskins Quotes

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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• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Serious
  • Cricket

• The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Become

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • American
  • Man
  • Serious

• I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Serious

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Violence
  • Serious
  • Waiting

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• When I talk to my mom and dad, and I'm in Paris, I'm like, 'Can you believe it?' It's ridiculous. I have a serious love for what we do. It's not something we take for granted.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Mom

• 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Song
  • Funny
  • Serious

• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  

  Joan Jett
  • World
  • Serious

• Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Perfect

• Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Freedom

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

  

  Bob Hoskins
  • Serious