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
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 wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out,… — 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
I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text… — 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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/ea8/anthony-hopkins-1334_acting_i-do-the-best-i-can-i-know-my-way-around_813114.jpg)
