Anthony Hopkins Quotes
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
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When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
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The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.
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When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
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I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire.
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
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With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
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I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
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The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
