Anthony Hopkins Quotes (37 Quotes)


    Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

    On his Hannibal Lector mask I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

    My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

    I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

    Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.


    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.

    I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

    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.

    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.



    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.


    When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of mind ... it's synonymous with a dream factory.

    Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

    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.

    I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.


    I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

    During one scene in the movie Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

    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.

    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.

    And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

    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.


    I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.


    I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

    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.

    I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

    I don't look like him I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that was OK. He said in the documentary he liked having pretty ladies about, and I thought that was the essence of the guy. He enjoyed life.


    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.


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