Anthony Hopkins Quotes, Thoughts and images

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

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

The reward is in the doing of it.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

I love life because what more is there?

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.

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

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

Guilt is the thief of life.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

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

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

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

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

I’m not young anymore. I don’t wanna start over again.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

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

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

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.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

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 myself.

I've got a great sense of humor.

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 am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are gods.

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

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

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

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

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

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

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 some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.