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I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
Anthony Hopkins
Work
Health
Day
Every Day
Every
Out
Freak
Just
Work Out
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.
Anthony Hopkins
Time
Strange
Illusion
Every
Magical
Comprehend
Supernatural
Force
Us
Strange Thing
Even
Thing
Second
Every Second
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
Anthony Hopkins
School
Like
Because
Understand
Child
Elephant
Things
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
Anthony Hopkins
You
Alive
Poetry
Learn
Text
Really
Keeps
I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
Anthony Hopkins
Me
Crazy
You
People
Young
Live
Stars
Think
Following
Seems
Stuff
Like
Know
Around
How
Maybe
Movie
Movie Stars
Little
Bodyguards
Need
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
Anthony Hopkins
Job
Tools
Guys
Steel
Blast
Supply
Wales
Worked
Working
Company
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
Anthony Hopkins
Must
Bored
Boring
Tend
Quickly
Get
Which
Means
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
Freedom
Blessed
Down
Musical
Background
Proper
Fact
Write
Knack
Never
Had
Suppose
Academic
Always
Improvisation
Cursed
Notes
Really
Play
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
Anthony Hopkins
Love
You
Scary
Scary Movie
Through
Makes
Curl
Going
Movie
Toes
Your
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
Anthony Hopkins
Myself
Shakespeare
Got
Prove
Done
Need
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
Rest
No Interest
Shakespeare
Nonsense
Get
Just
Famous
Wanted
Hogwash
Interest
British
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
Fight
Think
Harris
Admire
Had
He
Like
Know
Looked
Terrific
Course
Because
Always
Lot
Being
Actor
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins
Time
Try
Every
Think
Every Time
Retire
Retiring
Up
Script
Agent
Acting
Even
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
Life
Good
Too Much
Stage
Too
Good Life
Wednesday
Like
Wet
Going
After
Afternoon
Much
Night
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
Generation
Wonderful
Think
Those
Characters
Like
Came
Were
Did
Just
Act
Bogart
Actor
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
Anthony Hopkins
Me
Secure
Spielberg
Seemed
He
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Himself
Very
Worked
Things
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
Anthony Hopkins
Me
Strange
Men
Cast
Always
Really
I'm the slowest driver in the world.
Anthony Hopkins
World
Driver
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Anthony Hopkins
Work
Challenge
Stone
Oliver
Oliver Stone
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
Thought
Gave
Bit
Learn
Lines
Up
Yes
Oh
Just
Little
Little Bit
Show
Actor
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
Life
Good
Great
Me
You
Has-Been
Great Life
Through
Industry
Ready
Been
Really
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony Hopkins
Art
You
Once
Bad
Bad Acting
More
Fact
In Fact
Them
Act
Acting
Show
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
Theatre
People
Thought
About
Shakespeare
Journeys
Come
Talk
Until
Line
Discovery
Cows
Stand
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
Life
Beautiful
Wisdom
Peace
Woman
Wife
My Life
Beautiful Woman
Married
Brought
Stella
She
Lot
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
Work
Just Be
Way
Relaxed
Easy
Over
Well
Learn
Always
Go
Lines
Just
Script
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