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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'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.
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If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.
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I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.
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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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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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Guilt is the thief of life.
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Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
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I just wanted to be a composer I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
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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'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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