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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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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.
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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.
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I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.
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I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
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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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Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
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I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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I don't know what I believe.
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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 got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.
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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.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.
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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 survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
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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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