What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can… — 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
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 love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read… — 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
I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land… — 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 like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a… — 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 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 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
The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those… — 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'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 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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