Quotes By Anthony Hopkins

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

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

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

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

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I love life because what more is there?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.