Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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Anthony Hopkins

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1937

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.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Anthony Hopkins

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Anthony Hopkins

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

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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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Anthony Hopkins

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Anthony Hopkins

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Anthony Hopkins

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

Anthony Hopkins

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 believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

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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 came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

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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.

Anthony Hopkins

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Anthony Hopkins

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

Anthony Hopkins

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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