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We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.
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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
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I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
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