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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.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.
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You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
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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'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.
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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.
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I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
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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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I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
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We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
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Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
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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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You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
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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.
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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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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.
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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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