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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 having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.
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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 know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
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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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