Acting Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

— Anthony Hopkins

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

— Anthony Hopkins

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

— Anthony Hopkins

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise…

— Anthony Hopkins

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

— Anthony Hopkins

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

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself…

— Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about…

— Anthony Hopkins

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

I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more…

— Anthony Hopkins

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

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

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

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person…

— Anthony Hopkins

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

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as…

— Anthony Hopkins

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind,…

— Anthony Hopkins

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself…

— Anthony Hopkins

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

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of…

— Anthony Hopkins

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

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