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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Wales
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Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
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People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
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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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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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I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
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By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you
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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 remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, I'm home. I felt really at peace here.
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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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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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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 worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
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I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
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