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Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
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The reward is in the doing of it.
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I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.
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I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
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I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
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I just wanted to be a composer I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
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My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.
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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
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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 learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.
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Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.
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Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.
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If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.
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I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
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