Anthony Hopkins Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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

  Home, Journey, Discovery

• 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.

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Night, Bed

• I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, "I'm home." I felt really at peace here.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Morning, New York, Home

  "Walters Interviews Anthony Hopkins". "20/20" with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. February 2, 2006.

• If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Acting, Actors

• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, Children, Home

• 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

  Home, Play, America

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