The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it.… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film -… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
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… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
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… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share
![“I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make…” quote by Anthony Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ea8/anthony-hopkins-1334_acting_i-do-the-best-i-can-i-know-my-way-around_813114.jpg)
