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Anthony Hopkins is a renowned British actor, born on December 31, 1937, in Wales. Known for his exceptional acting skills and versatile character portrayals, Hopkins has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards and won the Best Actor for 'The Silence of the Lambs' in 1993.

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“I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.”

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“When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.”

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“I love life because what more is there?”

Love Life Inspirational Life Love Life Life Is Short Insperational Loving Life Hopkins I Love Life I Love My Life

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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”

Thinking Life Mind Humans Dying Killing Live Life Human Mind Traps Never Trust Overthinking Hopkins Dying Slowly

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“I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.”

Lying Minutes Drink Glasses Smoke Cigarette Workout Vodka Treadmills Hopkins

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“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.”

Ifs Love Pain Hurt Answers Losing Greatest Love Hopkins Love Pain Love And Pain Hurt So Much Losing Everything Happiness Now Love Is Pain It Still Hurts

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

People Thinking Philosophy Think Of Me Hopkins

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“I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.”

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“I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.”

Ifs Enough Including Live Life Drivers Hopkins Sudden Death

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“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.”

Believe Dream Existence Atheist Explanation Believe In God Hopkins

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

Wanted Interest Fame British Nonsense Sentimental Hopkins Hogwash

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

Beautiful Wife Married My Wife Beautiful Women Hopkins Stella

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“Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.”

Light Darkness Imperfection Richness Relish Full Life Hopkins Richness Of Life

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“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.”

Dream Three Week Childhood Obsession Obsessed Three Times Wales Hopkins I'm Back Dual Citizenship

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

Mind Dream Quality Our Lives Nightmare Peculiar Subconscious Subconscious Mind Hopkins

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“My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.”

Weak Spots Laziness Cookies Hopkins Weak Spots Croissants

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“I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Fun Sides Dark Accepting Healthy Shadow Oneself Having Fun Beast Dark Side Way To Live Hopkins Shadow Side

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

Weak Tyranny Dry Hopkins

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“I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.”

Happens America Citizenship Hopkins Dual Citizenship

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

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“I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.”

Ifs Enough School Gone College Clever Composing Hopkins Composing Music

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“I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.”

Needs I Can Done Can Do Prove Hopkins

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

Men Father Meat Grounded Potatoes Bakers Hopkins Meat And Potatoes

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“People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.”

People Should Asks Too Much Lifts Call Me Should I Hopkins

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

Wells Littles Kids Likes Little Kid Hopkins

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“In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.”

People I Can Home Lines Journey Discovery Theatre Coming Home Cows Hopkins

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“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.”

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“I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.”

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“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.”

Kind Matter Brain Becoming Stones Composer Pianist Hopkins

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“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.”

Way Made School Acting Saws Promise Misery Stuck Hopkins School Life

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“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.”

Knows Real Kids School Actors Brain Students Bother Moron Screwed Up Hopkins Antisocial

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“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.”

Whole Stage Mass Pages Scripts Dialogue Desert Sunrise Essays Suspicious Hopkins Stage Directions

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“Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.”

Want Years Children Home School Actors Wife Car Becoming Mets Years Ago Lonely Towns Port Wales Hopkins Bereft Home Town

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“My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.”

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“I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.”

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About the Author

Born: December 31, 1937
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 240

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