Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I'm composing and writing music.

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.

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.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

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.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

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.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I don't know what I believe.

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

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.

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

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.