Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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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 hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.
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I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
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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 believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
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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 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 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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Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
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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 learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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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 have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
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I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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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 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'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
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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.
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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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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
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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 was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.