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By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you
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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Wales
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I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
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I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
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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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People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
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We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.
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I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.
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I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
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When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
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I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
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I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
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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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If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
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I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.
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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 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'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
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Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.
Anthony Hopkins
I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. Action - and then do it.
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Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.
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I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
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