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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.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
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I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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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 was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
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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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