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I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
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I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. 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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I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
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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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The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.
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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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I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
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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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If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
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Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
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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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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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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 never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.
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I don't know what I believe.
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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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