We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman. Anthony Hopkins More Quotes by Anthony Hopkins More Quotes From Anthony Hopkins 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. Anthony Hopkins new-york home morning 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. Anthony Hopkins mean people thinking 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 talent musician actors I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't. Anthony Hopkins titles nice use What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.” Anthony Hopkins shoes careers thinking I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent. Anthony Hopkins actors play thinking You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business. Anthony Hopkins waffles actors want I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery. Anthony Hopkins acting promise school Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that. Anthony Hopkins lonely home children In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. Anthony Hopkins journey home discovery My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough. Anthony Hopkins dad character father I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father. Anthony Hopkins powerful mother father I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway. Anthony Hopkins villain play way I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people. Anthony Hopkins tease laughing people I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. Anthony Hopkins backgrounds play writing I'm composing and writing music. Anthony Hopkins composing writing-music writing I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters. Anthony Hopkins mountain magic gone I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America. Anthony Hopkins hopkins citizenship america When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot. Anthony Hopkins method actors giving If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure. Anthony Hopkins successful play mean
