Hopkins Quotes - Page 3

• People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Too Much, Should

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Men, Meat

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Needs, Done, Prove

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• I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Clever, School, College

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Effort, Watches

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Laziness, Weak Spots, Cookies

  "Anthony Hopkins Interviewed - FRACTURE". Interview with Steve 'frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 2, 2007.

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• 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

  Dream, Mind, Quality

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• I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in the mirror and, I forget exactly what it was, but he looked in the mirror and realized that when he smiled, it looked creepy.

  Julie Benz

  Reading, Mirrors, Creepy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Live Life, Enough, Sudden Death

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• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

  Peter Agre

  Commitment, Two, Wife

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• Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Littles, Likes

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

  John Money

  School, Years, Jail

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• Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

  Larry Eisenberg

  Wise, Ignorance, Character

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• Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

  Richard E. Grant

  Acting, Roles, Break

  Interview with Karen Jaehne, filmscouts.com.

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• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  Gene Wilder

  Magic, Comedian, Directors

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• A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

  William H. Macy

  Wife, Genes, Casts

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• Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Sexy, Character, Acting

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• It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

  Shirley Knight

  Actors, Wonderful, Film

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• A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Fear, Simple, Reality

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• My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

  Norman Pirie

  Faith, Teacher, Science

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• Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Relation, Apprehension, Comparison

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

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• I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Brain, Stones, Matter

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• 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

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• Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Taught Us, Water

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