Top 180 Anthony Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I love life because what more is there?”

— Anthony Hopkins

152. “I’ve always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That’s why I became an actor – ’cause I couldn’t do anything else.”

— Anthony Hopkins

153. “I was called ‘Dumbo,’ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.”

— Anthony Hopkins

154. “As a Welshman that can’t sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir – the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.”

— Anthony Hopkins

155. “My weak spot is that I don’t like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.”

— Anthony Hopkins

156. “You have to have humor. If you don’t have humor and you take yourself seriously, you’re dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You’ve gotta have a laugh. It’s better than working for a living.”

— Anthony Hopkins

157. “Acting’s entertainment. It’s not brain surgery.”

— Anthony Hopkins

158. “I never cling on to hope or certainty. They’re the enemies of peace.”

— Anthony Hopkins

159. “I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I’m not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.”

— Anthony Hopkins

160. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

161. “I wanted to be a musician but I didn’t have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.”

— Anthony Hopkins

162. “I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.”

— Anthony Hopkins

163. “I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.”

— Anthony Hopkins

164. “My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.”

— Anthony Hopkins

165. “I’m composing and writing music.”

— Anthony Hopkins

166. “It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.”

— Anthony Hopkins

167. “I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don’t you die, slowly.”

— Anthony Hopkins

168. “My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.”

— Anthony Hopkins

169. “Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.”

— Anthony Hopkins

170. “I don’t mind being a commodity. It’s given me a good life.”

— Anthony Hopkins

171. “Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.”

— Anthony Hopkins

172. “I never make conscious decisions.”

— Anthony Hopkins

173. “I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.”

— Anthony Hopkins

174. “A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.”

— Anthony Hopkins

175. “I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.”

— Anthony Hopkins

176. “I play music – I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.”

— Anthony Hopkins

177. “The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.”

— Anthony Hopkins

178. “I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.”

— Anthony Hopkins

179. “I’ve played a lot of parts. But I don’t look at my feeling is that this is a job. It’s given me a good living.”

— Anthony Hopkins

180. “I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.”

— Anthony Hopkins

181. “I wouldn’t use the word ‘scared’ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.”

— Anthony Hopkins

182. “I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.”

— Anthony Hopkins

183. “I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.”

— Anthony Hopkins

184. “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.”

— Anthony Hopkins

185. “If you have high expectations you’re going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.”

— Anthony Hopkins

186. “The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.”

— Anthony Hopkins

187. “I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.”

— Anthony Hopkins

188. “I’m having a great life. And I’m 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.”

— Anthony Hopkins

189. “Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.”

— Anthony Hopkins

190. “When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you’re influenced.”

— Anthony Hopkins

191. “I’m not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I’ve gotten a talent for it. I don’t have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.”

— Anthony Hopkins

192. “People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don’t know what else to say because that’s all I know how to do.”

— Anthony Hopkins

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

— Anthony Hopkins

194. “If you’re in a successful play and the play is working well – I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well – it’s a pleasure.”

— Anthony Hopkins

195. “I drank a lot, but I wouldn’t have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don’t have to be there anymore.”

— Anthony Hopkins

196. “I’ve always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.”

— Anthony Hopkins

197. “I’m having an old friend for dinner.”

— Anthony Hopkins

198. “Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.”

— Anthony Hopkins