Anthony Hopkins Quotes
"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: World)
"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things."
- Anthony Hopkins
"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Years)
"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Dream, Childhood)
"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Men)
"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
(Related: Direction)
"I've got a great sense of humor."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Humor, Sense)
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Shakespeare)
"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Work, Challenge)
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Father, Man)
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Death, Trust, Dying, Killing, Mind, Thinking)
"Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Movies)
"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
(Related: Act, Actors)
"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
(Related: Thought, Luck)
"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Lie, Day)
"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Thought, Actor)
"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
(Related: Actor, Actors, Being, Fight)
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Time, Acting)
"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Play)
"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
(Related: Home, America, Living, Play)
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Love)
"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Acting)
"I never make conscious decisions."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Decisions)
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: America, Citizenship)
"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
(Related: Famous, Interest, Nonsense, Shakespeare)
"I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it."
- Anthony Hopkins
"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
(Related: Life, Night)
"I love life because what more is there."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Life, Love)
"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
(Related: Love, Chance, Magic)
"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
(Related: People, Stars)
"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Life)