Words matter. These are the best Sylvia Hoeks Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
I don’t love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.
I’m not really into trends.
I’m from a little village in the south of Holland where there was nothing to do but watch American movies and television – I grew up with The ‘A-Team,’ ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ and ‘Edward Scissorhands.’
No pickup lines! They’re the worst. But I love jokes.
I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.
I love pretending more than reality.
It’s interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me – without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess – what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it’s like the character takes over.
I’m kind of shy.
Being in the camera’s eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.
I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.
I am a fan of dark movies and dark complex characters, and I love to take on a character like that.
When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don’t see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.
I’m not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.
You have to work your way up – that’s how I was brought up and what I believe in: working hard.
I was shooting a German movie, ‘Whatever Happens,’ at the time, and I got the call from my agent asking me to self-tape for ‘Blade Runner.’ That was a no-brainer. I loved the original, and Rutger Hauer was a national hero, and he did such a good job in it.
I didn’t ‘leave’ Dutch cinema.
Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.
If a man’s able to laugh about himself, that’s good. You can be in love with a man or share his bed, but if there’s no humor, there’s nothing.
I love long dinners with friends.
Think of Capt. Hook, and then put an ‘s’ after it. Capt. Hooks. That’s me.
I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.
As a female actress, I didn’t feel the need to be sexy or beautiful.
At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.
Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.
