“I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictat...” — Bob Hoskins Quote

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

“If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.”

“Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.”

“Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.”

“America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never.”

“Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.”