Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Done
  • Hand
  • Growth

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Devil

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Game
  • Works
  • Smiles

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Enough
  • King
  • Say

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • She
  • Mad

• It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Sense

• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Optimism

• Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Business
  • Power

• There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

  

  Maurice Saatchi

• At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • Book
  • Religious
  • Progress

• I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

  

  Anthony Hopkins