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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.
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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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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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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 became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
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I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. Action - and then do it.
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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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Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.
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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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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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I wanted revenge I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
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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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I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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