Anthony Hopkins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
-
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
-
I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
-
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
-
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
-
I like being unconventional.
-
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
-
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
-
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
-
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
-
Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
-
Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
-
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
-
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
-
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
-
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
-
I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
-
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
-
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
-
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.
-
I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.
