Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
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And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
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I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
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I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
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I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
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Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
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I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
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Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
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I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
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I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
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I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
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I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
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I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.