Quotes

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.” Anthony Hopkins

“I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.” Anthony Hopkins

“I like to take it easy.” Anthony Hopkins

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.” Anthony Hopkins

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

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“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

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

“It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.” Anthony Hopkins

“My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.” Anthony Hopkins

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

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

“Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.” 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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.” Anthony Hopkins

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“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.” Anthony Hopkins

“I do not regret one moment of my life.” Lillie Langtry

“Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.” Lillie Langtry

“Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.” Lillie Langtry

“I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.” Lillie Langtry

“After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.” Lillie Langtry