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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
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Port Talbot
Wales
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.
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I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.
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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
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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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I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
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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 know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
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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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Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.
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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 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 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 don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.
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We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
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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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