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I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, I'm home. I felt really at peace here.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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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 drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
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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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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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When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.
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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 would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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I've got a great sense of humor.
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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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I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
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