Anthony Hopkins Quotes

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

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• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

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• Dance should mean something to you.

  

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• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

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• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

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• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

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• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  

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• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

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• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

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• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

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• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

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• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

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• We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.

  

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• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

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• When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

  

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• Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.

  

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• I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

  

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• How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

  

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• One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

  

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• Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Mind
  • Text