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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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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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I wanted revenge I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
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I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
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I've got a great sense of humor.
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I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
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If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
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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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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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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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