Latest Anthony Hopkins Quotes from Interviews

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• I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Writing, Painting, Academic

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

• 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

  Lonely, School, Kids

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

• 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

  Musician, Actors, Talent

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

• 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.

• My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sports, School, Boys

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

• I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Acting, Way, Stranger

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

• There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Doubt, Kind, Paradox

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

• I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reading, Heads Or Tails, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't know what I believe.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, I Believe, Knows

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

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Resentment, Kind

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

• Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Guy, Computer, Changed

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

• I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Enemy, Certainty

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

• Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Low Expectations, Lows

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

• 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

  Jobs, Phones, Here And There

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Healthy, Doubt

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

• 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

  Guy, Goes On, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Enemy, Nazi, Certain

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

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Moving, Play, People

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Suicidal, Darkness, Addresses

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Past, Thinking

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• 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

  Actors, Waffles, Want

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Waste, Wasting Time, Cold

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Actors, Ruthless

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.