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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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You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.
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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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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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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 play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
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I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
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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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Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.
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Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
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I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
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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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I never make conscious decisions.
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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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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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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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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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I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
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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 think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
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