Anthony Hopkins Quotes - Page 3

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

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

I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

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 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.

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

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

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.