Henry Hopper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
-- Henry Hopper

#Reading #Writing #Boys
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
-- Henry Hopper

#Art #Creative #Want
I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
-- Henry Hopper

#Robots #Want #Explosions
I resisted being an actor for some time.
-- Henry Hopper

#Actors
I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
-- Henry Hopper

#Integrity #Struggle #Creative
You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.
-- Henry Hopper

#Commodity
Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.
-- Henry Hopper

#Opportunity #Thinking #People

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!

Henry Hopper famous quotes

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