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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 drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
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I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.
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Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.
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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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Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
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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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It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
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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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