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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.
Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
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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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You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.
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I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
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I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
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Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.
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