Anthony Hopkins quotes - page 2

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. (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.

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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

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

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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.

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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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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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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

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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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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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Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. (Anthony Hopkins)

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

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

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

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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

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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.

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

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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 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 am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. (Anthony Hopkins)

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

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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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.

Anthony Hopkins

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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Occupation: Welsh Actor
Born: December 31, 1937
Quotes count: 95
Wikipedia: Anthony Hopkins

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