Top 180 Anthony Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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2. “My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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3. “No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.”

— Anthony Hopkins

4. “Guilt is the thief of life.”

— Anthony Hopkins

5. “Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.”

— Anthony Hopkins

6. “I’m very much a loner. I don’t like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.”

— Anthony Hopkins

7. “Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.”

— Anthony Hopkins

8. “Getting old ain’t for the faint of heart.”

— Anthony Hopkins

9. “Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.”

— Anthony Hopkins

10. “Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.”

— Anthony Hopkins

11. “At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.”

— Anthony Hopkins

12. “If you don’t go when you want to go, when you do go, you’ll find you’ve gone.”

— Anthony Hopkins

13. “I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with-life’s too short.”

— Anthony Hopkins

14. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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15. “Once you accept the fact that there’s nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don’t worry about the consequences...”

— Anthony Hopkins

16. “If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Anthony Hopkins

18. “I’m devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.”

— Anthony Hopkins

19. “You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.”

— Anthony Hopkins

20. “When you’re young, you’re very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don’t think too much, just get on and do it.”

— Anthony Hopkins

21. “I’ve reached a happy stage in my life – you can call it “happy” – but I have no expectations anymore. I’m glad I’m not young anymore.”

— Anthony Hopkins

22. “I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.”

— Anthony Hopkins

23. “I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.”

— Anthony Hopkins

24. “How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don’t move. Scare people by being still.”

— Anthony Hopkins

25. “If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.”

— Anthony Hopkins

26. “You look closely enough, you’ll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Anthony Hopkins

28. “I don’t want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets...”

— Anthony Hopkins

29. “I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can’t arrest me.”

— Anthony Hopkins

30. “If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.”

— Anthony Hopkins

31. “I read a lot, that’s my main hobby. I’ve got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I’m a slow reader but I’m obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I’m an autodidact.”

— Anthony Hopkins

32. “I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.”

— Anthony Hopkins

33. “It’s very difficult to liberate yourself from what you’ve learned. You know it’s almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.”

— Anthony Hopkins

34. “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

35. “Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I’m talking about.”

— Anthony Hopkins

36. “Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.”

— Anthony Hopkins

37. “We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.”

— Anthony Hopkins

38. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

39. “Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn’t it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.”

— Anthony Hopkins

40. “The reward is in the doing of it.”

— Anthony Hopkins

41. “I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.”

— Anthony Hopkins

42. “I play piano and that’s my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I’ve got a pretty full creative life. And it’s not because, I’m obsessively creative.”

— Anthony Hopkins

43. “Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I’m not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.”

— Anthony Hopkins

44. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

45. “I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.”

— Anthony Hopkins

46. “Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don’t expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.”

— Anthony Hopkins

47. “I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It’s my favorite part of the day.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Anthony Hopkins

49. “I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.”

— Anthony Hopkins

50. “When you’re younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It’s not when you look back, nothing is that important. It’s only life.”

— Anthony Hopkins