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People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.
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There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.
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By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you
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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
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Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.
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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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If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
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I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.
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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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I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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The reward is in the doing of it.
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Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
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