Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
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I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
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I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.
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I never make conscious decisions.
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I love life because what more is there?
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
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We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
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I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.
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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
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I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
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We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
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I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
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I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
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I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
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Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
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And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.