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I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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 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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Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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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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Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.
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I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
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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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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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I'm the slowest driver in the world.
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The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.
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I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
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We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.
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We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.
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Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.
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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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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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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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I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
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