Hooper Quotes & Sayings

I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over to someone physically without truly knowing the person to whom they are entrusting with their body and emotions — Karen Amanda Hooper

Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky. — Karen Amanda Hooper

Go do whatever, wherever. Go do it alone, and now, because you want to and you're allowed to and you can. — Emma Hooper

River snickered. "You're a star of the sea, and my name has no hidden meaning. It makes sense."
"You lost me."
More of our classmates filtered in and took their seats. River leaned so close to me his lips brushed against my ear. "Every river finds its way to the sea. Maybe you're the sea I was meant to find. — Karen Amanda Hooper

Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do. — Kay Hooper

Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently. — Emma Hooper

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. — Tobe Hooper

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited. — Tom Hooper

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel. — Tom Hooper

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. — Tom Hooper

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. — Tom Hooper

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. — Tom Hooper

Weather is the indisputable ruler of the forest and every living thing in it ... — Ellen Sturgis Hooper

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented. — Tom Hooper

I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation. — Ibrahim Hooper

You can never stop being a mother. Never, never, never. — Emma Hooper

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into. — Tom Hooper

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. — Tom Hooper

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends. — Marian Hooper Adams

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain. — Tom Hooper

You might go, but you won't go far! — Debora Hooper

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. — Tom Hooper

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. — Marian Hooper Adams

Screw the rules, damn the consequences, and just love. Love until it kills you, because there's nothing better worth dying for. — Karen Amanda Hooper

Anyone who is a sinner in the human race ... is a candidate for salvation. — Debora Hooper

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years. — Tobe Hooper

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. — Tom Hooper

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. — Tom Hooper

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts. — Kay Hooper

Outside, gray clouds stretched to infinity. Were my parents and Mikey out there somewhere? I imagined them soaring like birds through the heavens, and wondered how, in a sky so endless, could there be no room for me? — Karen Amanda Hooper

The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men - Chan Buddhist — Richard Hooper

Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between the visible and the invisible world was just not there for him. It had become natural for Lewis to live ordinary life in a supernatural way. — Walter Hooper

The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper

I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life. — Joe Sample

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place. — Tobe Hooper

With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other. — John Foxe

If we're doing we're living and if we're living we're winning, right? — Emma Hooper

The radio was a beautiful thing. It was hodgepodge and patched up on the outside, but on the inside it was filled with voices, filled with people and music and ideas from away, from far away. Otto took a breath and turned it on. — Emma Hooper

Time doesn't heal all, no matter what they say. And tragedies don't make you stronger. That's another popular lie. They just make you more hardened, less surprised by misfortune. — Kim Hooper

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile. — Peter Benchley

People could say things about Owen. They could. But they don't. We don't. Words are strong. The strongest. Worse than bruises on — Emma Hooper

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear. — Peter Benchley

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you. — Emma Hooper

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable - more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis. — Judith Hooper

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it. — Walter Hooper

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. — Tom Hooper

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. — William Hooper

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. — Tom Hooper

I keep your photo in the pocket on the side without the gun. For balance. — Emma Hooper

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. — Tom Hooper

So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones. — Mary Hooper

I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that. — Tobe Hooper

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct. — Peter Morgan

... honor must precede honorariums. — Debora Hooper

I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B. — Chloe Hooper

Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support. — Tom Hooper

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper

Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to. — Cary Fukunaga

Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy. — Karen Amanda Hooper

Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as pleasurable as the experience itself. — Karen Amanda Hooper

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring. — Tom Hooper

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow. — Tobe Hooper

There is a cottage industry of these Muslim bashers who are training law enforcement personnel, military personnel ... and you are breeding a generation of leaders in our society who have this suspicion of Islam and hostility towards American Muslims and Muslims in general. The intention of these trainers is to demonise Islam and to marginalise American Muslims. — Ibrahim Hooper

When you heart and soul are in it, making love is not just special, Maryah
it's magical. — Karen Amanda Hooper

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' — Tom Hooper

Of all the Islamic organizations in America, CAIR has risen to the top as the most visible, most outspoken defender of Muslims in the United States. Masquerading as a civil rights organization, CAIR has had a hidden agenda to Islamize America from the start. Its cofounder and chairman, Omar Ahmad, a Palestinian American, told a Muslim audience in Fremont, California, in 1998: 'Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.' Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's national spokesman, is on record stating: 'I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic.' Three of CAIR's officials have already been convicted of terror-related crimes. One even worked for Hooper. He's now in prison for conspiring to kill Americans. — Brigitte Gabriel

What about free will? . . . There's that too. I never understood why people think they're mutually exclusive. Ask me, our entire lives aren't planned out for us- just some things. Specific events along the way, crossroads we're meant to come to. Tests, maybe, to measure our progress. But we always have choices, and those choices can send us along an unplanned path . . . there are some things that are meant to happen at a certain moment and in a certain way. No matter which path you choose, which decisions you make along your own particular journey, those pivotal moments appear to be set in stone. Maybe they represent the specific lessons we're meant to learn . . . Things we have to face. Things we have to learn. Responsibilities we have to fulfill. And mistakes we have to correct. — Kay Hooper

Holland seems like a quaint toy. — Marian Hooper Adams

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time. — Judith Hooper

I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you're away and I am here. So I will make and make until you get back to remind you, and myself: there are reasons to come home. — Emma Hooper

But the restlessness Quentin had been conscious of last night had shifted abruptly into a deep, cold sense of foreboding this morning when Diana had opened her eyes so suddenly to make an eerily familiar statement.

"It's coming."

And it had required all his willpower to allow her to leave his sight. To walk away from him, back up the well-lit paths to her cottage in order to change. Because that was exactly what Missy had said to him twenty-five years before.

The last time he had seen her alive. — Kay Hooper

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. — Tom Hooper

We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn — Kay Hooper

Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul — Kay Hooper

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. — Tom Hooper

P.S. I know you have gone to see the water, and you should see it, Etta, you should, but, in case there are other reasons you've left, in case there are things you have discovered or undiscovered that you didn't want to tell me in person, in that case, you can always tell me here. Tell me here and we can never mention it outside of paper and ink (or pencil). — Emma Hooper

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper

I don't even like football. — Tom Hooper

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. — Tom Hooper

The pain bursts through Etta like caffeine, — Emma Hooper

If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth could figure a way out of this mess, it'd be Uncle Stevie. — Tobe Hooper

Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today. — Debora Hooper

Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day. — Karen Amanda Hooper

To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call. — Debora Hooper

The earth rests, and remembers. — Ellen Sturgis Hooper

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control. — Tom Hooper

Maybe that's what is means to be human ... forever questioning our certainties. — Kay Hooper

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. — Ibrahim Hooper

Without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily — Kay Hooper

We have good days and bad days. You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you're doing something Good, you said. Getting rid of the old, and letting in the new. And, therefore, moving forward. Making progress. That's all you have to do to move forward, sometimes, you said, just breathe. So don't worry, Etta, if nothing else, I am still breathing. — Emma Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. — Tom Hooper

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' — Tom Hooper

A British villain never loses their sense of humour. — Tom Hooper

There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong. — Kay Hooper

It took them longer, a week or so, to notice the hole in their language that this new word had made. To grasp that there was no term for a parent without a child, a sister without a sister. — Emma Hooper

It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition. — Ibrahim Hooper