Hood Quotes

• I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,' 'Star Wars,' 'Highlander' and 'The Three Musketeers,' and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

  

  Kieran Bew
  • Up
  • Great
  • Star

• Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • Hero
  • Hood

• I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

  

  Teyana Taylor
  • Fashion
  • Hood
  • Ghetto

• In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

  

  John Singleton
  • Character
  • Hood

• You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Rap

• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Great
  • Hood

• I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence Fishburne and Angela Dasset do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.

  

  Nia Long
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Young

• She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • She
  • Style
  • Superhero

• I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Up
  • Hood

• My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

  

  Clark Blaise
  • Friends
  • Hood

• I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Done
  • Running
  • Football

• I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Hood

• A print of the painting, The Prayer At Valley Forge, depicting George Washington on bended knee, praying in the hard snow at Valley Forge, hangs over the desk in my office. If the practice of witchcraft, such as is allowed now at Fort Hood, is permitted to stand, one wonders what paintings will grace the walls of future generations.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Future
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Halloween
  • Hood

• In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Pretty
  • Hood

• I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up
  • Hood

• 'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Friends
  • Church
  • Hood

• I always show love to the local record stores because they actually listen to me... They know the songs on my cds. They look like me, straight out the hood. They know whats hot and what is on they shelf.

  

  Webbie
  • Like
  • Listen
  • Stores

• 'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Car

• The metal frame groans, and something under the hood lets out a mechanical hiss. Smoke billows up from the front, the universal symbol for “you’re screwed.

  

  Anna Banks
  • Hood
  • Symbol
  • Screwed

• In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Time
  • Rap
  • Hood

• They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Grace
  • Hood
  • Circumstance

• House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • House
  • Chicago
  • Hood

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