Hook Quotes

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I've got a good right hook.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.