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I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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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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I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
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When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.
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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
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