Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. 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 King Richard the Lionheart...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 December 1937
CityMargam, Wales
This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.
I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.
At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
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.
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.