When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life. Anthony Hopkins More Quotes by Anthony Hopkins More Quotes From Anthony Hopkins I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone. Anthony Hopkins isolated loner children 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 painting academic writing I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years. Anthony Hopkins college drama years I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long. Anthony Hopkins locked-up very-good long My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting. Anthony Hopkins weak-spots wife acting I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. Anthony Hopkins college clever school For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls. Anthony Hopkins skulls lakes dream I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had. Anthony Hopkins cinema actors thinking Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about. Anthony Hopkins cheesy-love forever talking Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. Anthony Hopkins dry tyranny weak I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor. Anthony Hopkins real kids school I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. Anthony Hopkins creative young brain 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. Anthony Hopkins blades-of-grass shadow believe I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore. Anthony Hopkins stage expectations young I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. Anthony Hopkins generations character thinking Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor. Anthony Hopkins actors fighting thinking I think doubt is a very healthy way to live. Anthony Hopkins healthy doubt thinking I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up. Anthony Hopkins self sound jobs We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance. Anthony Hopkins strong ignorance thinking Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved. Anthony Hopkins care faces heart
