Anthony Hopkins Quotes

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Politician
  • Asset

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Question
  • Marriage

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Time Passes

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Women
  • Think
  • Myself

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

  

  Charles Fleischer
  • Science
  • Technology

• To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art

• How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet!How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn!How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

  

  Rain
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• I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Inspire

• Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
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