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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Port Talbot
Wales
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Philip Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
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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 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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That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
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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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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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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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The reward is in the doing of it.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.
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I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.
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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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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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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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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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