Anthony Hopkins Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.
I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
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.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.
I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.
Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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.
Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
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.
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.
Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile.
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.
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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.
We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.
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.
Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
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.
I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.
I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense ... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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.
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.
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.
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.