The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I… — 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 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
When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part… — 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
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
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
There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. — 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 think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did… — 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
