I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the… — 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 remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting… — 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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