Quote

I wanted revenge I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

Anthony Hopkins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Port Talbot
Wales
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
Shows
Infantile
Ever
Dreamed
Wanted
Graves
Done
Revenge
Made
Unhappy
Way
Dance
Life
Pretty
People
Show

More quotes by Anthony Hopkins

Image
I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
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.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
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.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
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.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I never make conscious decisions.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, God he was acting a lot. Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.
Anthony Hopkins