Anthony Hopkins Quotes
I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I only unwind at facials and massages.
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A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
