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

• 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

• 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

• All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

  

  Edie Falco

• 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

• When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life

• The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

  

  Cynthia McKinney
  • Money
  • War
  • Death

• So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Good
  • Thinking

• We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• 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