Hopkins Anthony Quotes

#1. I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#2. There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here ... Nobody really knows any of it. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#3. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#4. Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#5. 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. - Author: Gene Wilder

#6. I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#7. In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it. - Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

#8. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#9. That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#10. You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#11. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#12. Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#13. I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. - Author: Phil Daniels

#14. Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do. - Author: Evan Rachel Wood

#15. I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#16. The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#17. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#18. I think doubt is a very healthy way to live. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#19. If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#20. When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#21. It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins. - Author: Gary Sinise

#22. I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#23. I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#24. I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#25. I never make conscious decisions. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#26. Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years. - Author: Liam Neeson

#27. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#28. I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#29. I don't have a vast longing for the stage. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#30. We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life ... maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#31. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#32. I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#33. A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife. - Author: William H. Macy

#34. Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face." - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#35. I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#36. Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#37. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#38. I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#39. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#40. If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#41. I love life because what more is there? - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#42. We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants ... We're all different. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#43. I'm glad I'm not young anymore. I don't want to start all over again. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#44. I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#45. I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#46. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#47. 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. - Author: Larry Eisenberg

#48. Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#49. I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#50. Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#51. People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#52. Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#53. If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#54. The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#55. I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#56. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#57. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#58. I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#59. Today,is the Tomorrow I was so worried about Yesterday - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#60. How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#61. Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people. - Author: Bryan Batt

#62. Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#63. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#64. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#65. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#66. Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#67. I'm the slowest driver in the world. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#68. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#69. My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#70. I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#71. I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#72. I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#73. I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#74. I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#75. My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#76. I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#77. I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#78. Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#79. I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#80. I've got a great sense of humor. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#81. You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#82. I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#83. I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#84. Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#85. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#86. I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#87. The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#88. 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! - Author: Richard E. Grant

#89. If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#90. I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#91. I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#92. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#93. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#94. I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#95. Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#96. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#97. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#98. I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#99. 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. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#100. I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. - Author: Anthony Hopkins