A barrel-chested, stage-trained, Cockney actor, Bob Hoskins first won international attention as a... (Learn more)
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"I love Hollywood. It pays you a lot of money, makes you very famous and treats you like the Crown Jewels. England is a funny place. It does have a class system. It does become wearying that whenever you walk into a room and open your mouth and out comes a Cockney accent, they lock up the silver and send the women upstairs." - Hoskins to Newsday, Nov. 7, 1999
"My childhood was happy, but I was a rebellious kid. I was a teenager in the '60s, when pop culture and American rock'n roll were arriving in Britain in a big way, and I wanted to have a good time so I quit school when I was 15. My idea of a good time was sex and travel, so I bummed around the Middle East and wound up on a kibbutz in Israel. I lasted there until they told me I had to join the army." - Hoskins to The Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1998
"The closest thing I know about appearance is my chin when I shave in the morning. I'm not obsessed with youth. I was born old." - Hoskins to the London Times, March 26, 1998
"You don't go to Hollywood for art, you go for fame and fortune. So I put the money in the bank, and I did the things. When you work in Hollywood and you become a Hollywood star earning a Hollywood fee, you put yourself out of reach. So people don't even approach you, or you don't get to hear about [interesting smaller projects]. It's up to you to make a radical decision and change the circumstances." - Hoskins to the Boston Herald, April 1, 2000
About his concerns working on "TwentyFourSeven," which featured several local youths in their first film roles: "I was terrified that the guys would see me as this ridiculous old film star, but they didn't. I was accepted and we just got on with it. At my age, when you realize you can still run with a gang - that does a lot for your ego." - Hopskins quoted in the Daily News, April 19, 1998
Hoskins on being approached by director Roger Spottiswoode to play Manuel Noriega: "He said, 'Listen Bob, this was the ugliest man in South America. he was a megalomaniac, an appalling man - and you are the only actor in the world who can play him.' I didn't know whether to be flattered or to hit him!" - From London's Evening Standard, Jan. 14, 2000
Hoskins was Brian De Palma's second choice to play Al Capone in "The Untouchables" if Robert De Niro was unavailable. Reportedly the director sent a six-figure check to Hoskins for "being a great stand-by".
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