Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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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.
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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 believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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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 don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
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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 learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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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 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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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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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 have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
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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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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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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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I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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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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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.