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I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
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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'm the slowest driver in the world.
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I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set. Everyone would be looking around for this cat.
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I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.
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I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
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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 wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
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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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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.
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I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
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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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Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.
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What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.
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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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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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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.
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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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