Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Will

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Fact

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

  

  David Whyte
  • Life

• I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your team media guide. I don't want to be that. I do want to contribute, and if I don't contribute, I'll walk away from it. If I don't feel welcomed, I'll walk away from it.

  

  Jerry West
  • Good
  • Team

• I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Even though I knew I was inside the space shuttle getting ready to go fly, something about it wasn't completely real up until we got the call at about one minute to go, to close and lock our visors and start our oxygen flow. People often ask me, "What did it feel like right at the moment of launch?" And they're surprised when I tell them actually what I felt was relief. It wasn't like being anxious or scared or anything. It was relief because this is something I had wanted to do my whole life and now that the boosters had lit, we were on our way to go do it and nothing was going to stop us.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

  

  Alma Gluck
  • American
  • Soul
  • Inspired

• I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • People