Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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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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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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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 don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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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 couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.
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I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.
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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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I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
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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'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
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I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.
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I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
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What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.
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I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
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I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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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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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
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I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
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The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
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I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.