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 More Quotes by Anthony Hopkins More Quotes From Anthony Hopkins I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it. Anthony Hopkins distance games years If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose. Anthony Hopkins jail acting philosophy I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat. Anthony Hopkins cat sorry moving As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself. Anthony Hopkins membership males proud If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. Anthony Hopkins vision vegetables dream I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. Anthony Hopkins dark fun mean I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream. Anthony Hopkins happened dream life If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone. Anthony Hopkins gone want meaningful 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. Anthony Hopkins pain solitude loneliness 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. Anthony Hopkins coffee preparation friendly Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized it maybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happened as I expected it to, as I'd pictured it." My whole life has been like that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go. Anthony Hopkins men kids children By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you Anthony Hopkins giving-up want needs I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. Anthony Hopkins hogwash nonsense sentimental When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use. Anthony Hopkins blessed believe thinking When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on. Anthony Hopkins guy goes-on littles We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman. Anthony Hopkins boogeyman shadow darkness My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class. Anthony Hopkins sports boys school I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between. Anthony Hopkins serious acting people I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. Anthony Hopkins fascinated time facts Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it. Anthony Hopkins good-reads good-life fun
