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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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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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I'm composing and writing music.
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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'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
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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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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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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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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 learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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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've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
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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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Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
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