Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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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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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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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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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 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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Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
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I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
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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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I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
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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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People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
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I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
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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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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'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
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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 do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. 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 come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
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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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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.