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I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Port Talbot
Wales
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
Cruel
Devious
Addictive
Cunning

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What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.
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By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
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When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.
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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
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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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I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
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You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.
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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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When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.
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Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.
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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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When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.
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Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
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I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
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I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
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Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
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I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
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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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