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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. — Anthony Hopkins

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. — Phil Daniels

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

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people. — 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 play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. — Anthony Hopkins

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life. — Anthony Hopkins

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive. — Anthony Hopkins

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal. — Anthony Hopkins

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. — Anthony Hopkins

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

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

Guilt is the thief of life. — Anthony Hopkins

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years. — Liam Neeson

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. — Anthony Hopkins

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American. — Anthony Hopkins

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'm the slowest driver in the world. — Anthony Hopkins

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

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? — Anthony Hopkins

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced. — Anthony Hopkins

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day. — Anthony Hopkins

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. — 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

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

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

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

I was hell bent on destruction ... it was like being possessed by a demon. — Anthony Hopkins

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live. — Anthony Hopkins

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

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart. — Anthony Hopkins

Today,is the Tomorrow I was so worried about Yesterday — Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

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

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

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing. — Chris Hemsworth

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film. — David Ginola

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. — Anthony Hopkins

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. — Anthony Hopkins

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged ... and found wanting. — Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. — Anthony Hopkins

The reward is in the doing of it. — Anthony Hopkins

I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I don't know what I believe. — Anthony Hopkins

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage. — Anthony Hopkins

Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday. — Anthony Hopkins

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage. — Dirk Benedict

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock. — Howard Berger

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. — Anthony Hopkins

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities. — Anthony Hopkins

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me. — Anthony Hopkins

I love life because what more is there? — Anthony Hopkins

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school. — Anthony Hopkins

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on. — Anthony Hopkins

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life. — Anthony Hopkins

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later. — Anthony Hopkins

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

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. — Anthony Hopkins

I like to take it easy. — Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. — 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 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

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives. — Anthony Hopkins

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. — Anthony Hopkins

I never make conscious decisions. — Anthony Hopkins

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. — Anthony Hopkins

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase. — Anthony Hopkins

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. — Anthony Hopkins

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

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn. — Walton Goggins

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs. — Anthony Hopkins

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. — Debra Messing

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. — Anthony Hopkins

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. — Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins