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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

• 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.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Financial
  • Integrity

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • World
  • End

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Play
  • Role
  • Matters

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Gym

• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Ethical

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Education
  • Change
  • Learn

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Australia

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Story

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• All wishes are not idle, nor in vain fulfilment we devise - for pain is pain, not for itself to be desired, but ill; or else to strive or to subdue the will alike were graceless; and of Evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Evil

• It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Moral
  • Animal
  • Logic

• Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Hate
  • Honor

• It is important for a father who feels pushed away to say, in effect, 'When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father,' or 'I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks.' Women cannot hear what men do not say. – page 105.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

  

  Geoffrey Miller
  • Creativity
  • Humans
  • Selection

• 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.

  

  Anthony Hopkins