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Anthony Hopkins

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1937

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 think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

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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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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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I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

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I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

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I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

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Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

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I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

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I like to take it easy.

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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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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 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 can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

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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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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.

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I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

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