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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.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.
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I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.
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You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
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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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I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
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I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
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I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
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When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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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 don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
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When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.
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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'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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Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.
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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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