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 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

• 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

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

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Work
  • Party

• When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Work

• So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Feeling
  • Air
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Mind
  • Business

• Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Home
  • Mother

• Dylan is free now to work on his own terms. It would be foolish to predict what he will do next. But hopefully he will remain a mediator, using the language of pop to transcend it. If the gap between past and present continues to widen, such mediation may be crucial. In a communications crisis, the true prophets are the translators.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  

  Saadi
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • War

• I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Men
  • Women

• Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Minds

• 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