I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me. Anthony Hopkins More Quotes by Anthony Hopkins More Quotes From Anthony Hopkins People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up. Anthony Hopkins too-muchshouldpeople I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere. Anthony Hopkins actingstrangerway I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive. Anthony Hopkins deviouscunning I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor. Anthony Hopkins favouriterolesactors I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. Anthony Hopkins sunrisedesertpages I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day. Anthony Hopkins freakwork-out I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons. Anthony Hopkins afternoongood-lifenight You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it. Anthony Hopkins swimmingrealbelieve I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase. Anthony Hopkins suitcasesbodyremember We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different. Anthony Hopkins musiciandifferentpeople There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air. Anthony Hopkins fishingairreality Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running. Anthony Hopkins runningmightnight 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. Anthony Hopkins warkidsamerica I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die. Anthony Hopkins actorsjobsway What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work. Anthony Hopkins scriptslinesway I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time. Anthony Hopkins caremirrorslooks I'm the slowest driver in the world. Anthony Hopkins driversworld Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. Anthony Hopkins lucknosesthinking 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. Anthony Hopkins playhomeamerica When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced. Anthony Hopkins designuniquetrying
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