A Quote by Bob Hoskins

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

Bob Hoskins

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Bob Hoskins
British - Actor
October 26, 1942 - April 29, 2014

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

Bob Hoskins

I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

Aaron Douglas

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Charles Stross

Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.

Scott Herman

Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.

Stormzy

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

Barry Cryer

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

C. S. Lewis

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

C. S. Lewis

If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.

Mark Haddon

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

Norton Juster

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

Phyllis Logan

I'm grateful that so many viewers have related to characters I've played. I think many in the audience see themselves in my characters or feel like the characters are similar to their friends or sisters.