Quotes By Anthony Hopkins

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

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

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.

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

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

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

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

I've got a great sense of humor.

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

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

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

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.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

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

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I like to take it easy.

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

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

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

I love life because what more is there?

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

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

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

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

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.

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.