Anthony Hopkins Quotes - Page 4

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• I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. 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

  Strong, Sorry, War

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Supernatural Forces, Strange, Illusion

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Let Me, Secure

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• 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

  Morning, Mirrors, Looks

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• Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reality, Giving, Soul

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• 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

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Sentimental, Nonsense

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• 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.

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• I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Cinema, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Expectations, Stage, Young

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• I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Character, Thinking, Generations

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• 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

  Cheesy Love, Talking, Forever

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• I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it seriously, quote 'seriously', I mean not patronize it. It's a big mistake to patronize it and think it's a third rate medium, because it's not, it's a great art form.

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  Art, Mistake, Real

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• 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.

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Long, Very Good, Locked Up

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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.

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• I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

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  Revenge, People, Unhappy

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• Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Piano, Creative

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• My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

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  Wife, Acting, Weak Spots

  "Anthony Hopkins Talks Fracture". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. April 17, 2007.

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• I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Directors, Actors, Want

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• As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

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  Males, Proud, Membership

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• I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

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  Sorry, Moving, Cat

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• 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

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

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