No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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
How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — 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 never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've… — 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
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
Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do… — 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
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
If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. — 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
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 have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — 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
