Anthony Hopkins quotes

“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

“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

“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