Hughes Quotes

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. (Ted Morgan)
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun. View quote
Amanda Hocking
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. View quote
Michael Fox
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. View quote
Esther Williams
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. View quote
Esther Williams
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. View quote
Anne Stevenson
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. View quote
Diane Cilento
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. (Gene Tierney)
They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. View quote
Jane Russell
[Lloyd George] then went on to say that the Imperial Conference had had a meeting that morning, and that he, Smuts, Hughes and Massey did not intend to allow the British Empire to take a back seat. Gt Britain had won the war. She had made enormous sacrifices in men and money, and they were quite determined that she should not be overshadowed by America. View quote
David Lloyd George
If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, it's not of the Father, it's of the world. The world passeth away. It's all going to be gone. It's all going to burn. Do you know how much Howard Hughes left behind when he died? All of it, every penny. You're going to do the very same thing. Don't invest your life in things that are going to burn. The last thing we need to do, almost last thing, listen for the trumpet. View quote
Kent Hovind
Bob: [about Bing Crosby] He's up in Nevada looking over Boulder Dam - his piggy bank is filled. He's so loaded, you know, he uses Howard Hughes for a bell boy. View quote
Jack Benny
It was the morning of April 20, 1999, and it was pretty much like any other morning in America. The Farmer did his chores. The milkman made his deliveries. The President bombed another country whose name we couldn't pronounce. Out in Fargo, North Dakota, Cary McWilliams went on his morning walk. Back in Michigan, Mrs Hughes welcomed her students for another day of school. And out in a little town in Colorado, two boys went bowling at 6 in the morning. Yes, it was a typical day in the United States of America. View quote
Michael Moore
Hughes, who had entered the space program from astrophysics, came with a very good record, in fact a brilliant one. This troubled many of his military superiors, to whom high intelligence was a code word for instability and insubordination. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
I fought Hughes the first time, he beat me fair and square- fairly squarely, sorry. View quote
Georges St. Pierre
The challenge is to understand the psyche of somebody like that. There is no true genius or revolutionary ideas, I don't think, without some element of compulsiveness or madness or obsession, and that's certainly indicative of Howard Hughes. Understanding his obsessive-compulsive disorder was really the key for me for opening up who this man was. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. (Martin Scorsese)
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures. View quote
Martin Scorsese
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak. View quote
Martin Scorsese
You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes. View quote
Arsène Wenger
And where did anyone get the brainless opinion that the super-rich are too wealthy to steal? ...from Ford to Hughes to Iacocca and Trump and the other tycoon redeemers, we have an exact demonstration that nobody is more covetous and greedy than those who have far too much." View quote
Christopher Hitchens