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Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
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I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, I'm home. I felt really at peace here.
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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'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
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The reward is in the doing of it.
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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.
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I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
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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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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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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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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
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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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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
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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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