I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of… — 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
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He… — 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'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad… — 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
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
When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big… — 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
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is… — 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
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
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife,… — 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 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
I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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