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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 wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.”

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

Way Play Figures Villain

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“I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.”

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

Writing Play Happens My Own Backgrounds Background Music

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“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.”

Ifs Wells Mean Play Pleasure Audience Successful

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“I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.”

Play Creative Paint Piano Creative Life

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“How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.”

People Wells Stills Play Moving Scare Hannibal Lector Lectors

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

Wells Play Able Monsters Madmen

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

Play Brain Fingers Active Piano

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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.”

Writing I Can Play Facts Blessed Notes Musical Backgrounds Academic Improvisation Cursed Knack Hopkins

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“I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, "I'm home." I felt really at peace here.”

Firsts Play Home Remember Felt Morning Streets New York Walking

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“My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.”

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“When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.”

Stills Play Age Young Emotional Life Experience Immature Emotional Power

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

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