I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. Anthony Hopkins More Quotes by Anthony Hopkins More Quotes From Anthony Hopkins I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff. Anthony Hopkins moviecrazystars I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. Anthony Hopkins growing-upboyskids It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive. Anthony Hopkins difficultimpossibleorder A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Anthony Hopkins great-yearmovienice Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox. Anthony Hopkins soulgivingreality 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 rhythmlinesacting Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears. Anthony Hopkins policepoorthinking I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a nervous, a mental, breakdown in this one scene. I didn't have many lines. I just had to make sure I knew I came in on cue all right. And I was just watching her walking though the rehearsal. I thought I know what she's doing, "This is going to be terrific." So they said, "Are you ready" and she said, "Yeah," "Ok, roll the camera." And all in one take. Anthony Hopkins camerastogetherthinking I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me. Anthony Hopkins mirrorsmorninglooks There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here... Nobody really knows any of it. Anthony Hopkins supernatural-forcesideasthinking I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives. Anthony Hopkins qualityminddream Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid. Anthony Hopkins likeslittleskids I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets. Anthony Hopkins passionregretwant 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. Anthony Hopkins unhappyrevengepeople I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius. Anthony Hopkins insecuregiantspersonality Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting. Anthony Hopkins drugkindsex I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. Anthony Hopkins securelet-me 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. Anthony Hopkins lastsenemyyears Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture. Anthony Hopkins actorsnameskids There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage. Anthony Hopkins bitsscaredstage
