Bob Hoskins
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"Robert William" ""Bob"" "Hoskins" was an English people/English actor, known for playing Cockneys and gangsters. His best known works include lead roles in The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (film)/Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (film)/Mermaids (1990), Super Mario Bros. (film)/Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985 film)/Brazil (1985), Hook (film)/Hook (1991), Nixon (film)/Nixon (1995), Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009 film)/A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).

Hoskins received the prestigious Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)/Prix d'interprétation masculine, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mona Lisa. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same role. In 2009, he won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street (TV series)/The Street.

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If you've got any sense of how wrong you could be then you could be very sick in the fire bucket before you go on.

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My own mum wouldn't call me pretty.

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I see you are Jewish.

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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.

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Was the most peaceful place on earth. There is something quite extraordinary about the theatre. On some nights - very rarely, and some people have never experienced it - actors say 'Pan's in.' Whatever anybody does, it works. Pan is sitting on your shoulders. He's with you. I had it a couple of times on Guys and Dolls. You just knew it was the business.

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When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It's all great and if the film turns out to be a load of s - -, nobody blames you.

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

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After the war it was still fabulous. It became a sort of family show. It was really innocent, people used to take their kids.

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You imagine, the characters I play? Can you imagine me taking them home to Linda and the kids? My bags would be at the door.

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