Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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.

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.

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

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.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

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.

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.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

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.

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.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

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

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

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.

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.

It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

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 was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

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.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

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.

My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I've got a great sense of humor.

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.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

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

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.