Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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Anthony Hopkins

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1937

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Anthony Hopkins

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

Anthony Hopkins

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Anthony Hopkins

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Anthony Hopkins

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Anthony Hopkins

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Anthony Hopkins

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Anthony Hopkins

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

Anthony Hopkins

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

Anthony Hopkins

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

Anthony Hopkins

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Anthony Hopkins

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

Anthony Hopkins