Quotes By Anthony Hopkins

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

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.

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.

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 don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

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.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

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

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I've got a great sense of humor.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

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

I never make conscious decisions.

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

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

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.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.