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I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
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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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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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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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