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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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I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
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When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.
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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 like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.
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I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
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I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.
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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 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'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
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Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.
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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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I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here... Nobody really knows any of it.
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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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I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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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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Guilt is the thief of life.
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I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.
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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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