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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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Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.
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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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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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I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.
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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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You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
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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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I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
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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 drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
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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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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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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
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I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
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