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Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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 was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.
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Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.
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I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
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I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
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I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.
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I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
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I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
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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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My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.
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If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.
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I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
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Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
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