Anthony Hopkins
30 quotes
Biography
"I've got a great sense of humor."
"I don’t know what it is, truthfully, I think part of it is being still and all that. I don’t know. I like to kind of come in at the side door. I like to act like a submarine; just don’t do much and just let it evolve. It’s resisting the urge to push the envelope. It’s very difficult for an actor to avoid, you want to show a bit. But I think the less one shows the better"
"Being an atheist must be like living in a closed cell with no windows. I’d hate to live like that, wouldn’t you? We see them, mind you, on television today, many brilliant people who are professional atheists who say they know for a fact that it’s insanity to have a God or to believe in religion. Well, OK, God bless them for feeling that way and I hope they’re happy. But I couldn’t live with that certainty, and I wonder about some of them: why are they protesting so much? How are they so sure of what is out there? And who am I to refute the beliefs of so many great philosophers and martyrs all the way down the years?"
"To act is to decieve, and to decieve, one must forget oneself."
"My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me."
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
"I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough."
"My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams."
"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
"I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else."
"In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it."
"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
"Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid."
"I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college."
"We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist."
"I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom."
"We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist."
"I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough."
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
"I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom."
"People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life."
"My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."
"I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here."