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“I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.”

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Author:Tara Reid

“Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.”

“Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.”

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Author:Natalie

“I'm cheaper than Anthony Hopkins. The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn't go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure. Tony Hopkins didn't think it would be an adventure. Tony is part of Hollywood. I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.”

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Author:Toby Jones

“Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.”

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Author:Bryan Batt

“I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.”

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Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

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Book:Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

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“And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.”

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Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.”

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Author:Bernard Hopkins

“You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that you have to get straight to the point with. You can't lollygag and bullshit because that's his game. Being serious and doing my job throwing punches in the ring, that's my game. I don't come to put on a show for the people. I come to give the people a fight and give them their money's worth; give them real entertainment.”

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Author:Tavoris Cloud

“The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.”

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Author:Tavoris Cloud

“Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.”

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Author:Don King

“I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.”

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Author:Keith Thurman

“I love life because what more is there?”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

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