Anthony Hopkins Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Men, Meat

• My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dad, Father, Character

• I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Home, Empty Mind

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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