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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.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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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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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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I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
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There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.
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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'm composing and writing music.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
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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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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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We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.
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Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.
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I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.
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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 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 never make conscious decisions.
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There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.
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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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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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