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Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
Born: Dec 31, 1937
Actor Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Christian Bale Gwilym Lee Luke Evans Matt Ryan Michael Sheen Rhys Ifans Richard Burton Tom Ellis
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom. Anthony Hopkins
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And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it. Anthony Hopkins
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I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. Anthony Hopkins
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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
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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor. Anthony Hopkins
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Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. Anthony Hopkins
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I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons. Anthony Hopkins
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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
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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
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I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really. Anthony Hopkins
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I'm the slowest driver in the world. Anthony Hopkins
World Driver
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. Anthony Hopkins
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Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought. Anthony Hopkins
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This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille. Anthony Hopkins
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. Anthony Hopkins
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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
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams. Anthony Hopkins
Life Dreams My Life Out Beyond Greatest Turned
I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. Anthony Hopkins
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What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work. Anthony Hopkins
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I like to take it easy. Anthony Hopkins
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I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. Anthony Hopkins
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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
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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
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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. Anthony Hopkins
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We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose. Anthony Hopkins
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I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius. Anthony Hopkins
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