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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.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
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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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I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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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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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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