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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.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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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 came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
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Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.
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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 just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. Action - and then do it.
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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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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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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
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I'm the slowest driver in the world.
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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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Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.
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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.
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I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, It's a good script, I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.
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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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If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
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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.
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Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.
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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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