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People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
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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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I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
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I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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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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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
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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 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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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
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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'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
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It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
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I've got a great sense of humor.
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Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
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I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, God he was acting a lot. Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.
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