Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

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

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

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

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

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

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've got a great sense of humor.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guilt is the thief of life.

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

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

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

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

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.

I love life because what more is there?

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

The reward is in the doing of it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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