Anthony Hopkins Quotes
What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
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Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.
