Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

About Anthony Hopkins:

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, and a composer and painter. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing Richard I.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Anthony Hopkins

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

Anthony Hopkins

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Anthony Hopkins

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Anthony Hopkins

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

Anthony Hopkins

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Anthony Hopkins

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.

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

Anthony Hopkins

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Anthony Hopkins

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Hopkins
  • Descriptionstage and television actor from Wales
  • AliasesSir Anthony Hopkins
  • BornDecember 31, 1937
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Composer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Donostia Award