Anthony Hopkins Biography
Anthony Hopkins Quotes
• Blank face is fine.the computer works faster than the brain,don't forget.The art of acting is not to act.Once you show them more,what you show them,in fact is bad acting.
• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
• I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
• I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
• I love life because what more is there.
• I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
• Life isn't worth living if I miss an episode
• I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
• I was lousy in school. Real screwed up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
• 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.
• I was so glad that I did it (the film). I think it was probably one of those more satisfying films to be in. Working with Gwyneth is, I think, one of the greatest experiences because she's a spectacularly good actress.
• I was in North London, I remember, doing a play, and the news came through that Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. I thought, 'The world has completely gone insane.'
• I almost missed the part because I forgot to read (the script),
• [In September, Gwyneth Paltrow reprises her role in the award-winning play] Proof ... Shakespeare in Love.
• I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that was OK. He said [in the documentary] he liked having pretty ladies about, and I thought that was the essence of the guy. He enjoyed life.
• Sometimes you get as little as 25 percent.
• I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
• The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
•I've had the great fortune to work with many great directors [and] great actors, and I just want to thank them.
• Everyone today is so laid-back and cool and it's kinda boring, but Tom is the opposite of that
• 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 still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase
• When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of mind ... it's synonymous with a dream factory.
• Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
• Just because I went buggers, doesn't mean you will. This stuff is not strictly hereditary, they know that now. Listen to me, you're going to be OK.
Anthony Hopkins Filmography
2008 - Harry and the Butler
2008 - The Wolf Man
2007 - Slipstream
2007 - The City of Your Final Destination
2007 - Beowulf
2007 - Fracture
2006 - Bobby
2006 - All the King's Men
2005 - The World's Fastest Indian
2005 - Proof
2004 - Alexander
2003 - The Human Stain
2002 - Bad Company
2002 - Red Dragon
2001 - Hearts in Atlantis
2001 - Hannibal
2001 - Shortcut to Happiness
2000 - The Grinch
2000 - Mission: Impossible II
1999 - Titus
1999 - Instinct
1998 - Meet Joe Black
1998 - The Mask of Zorro
1997 - The Edge
1997 - Amistad
1996 - Surviving Picasso
1996 - August
1995 - Nixon
1995 - The Road to Wellville
1994 - Legends of the Fall
1993 - Shadowlands
1993 - The Innocent
1993 - The Remains of the Day
1993 - The Trial
1992 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 - Spotswood
1992 - Chaplin
1992 - Freejack
1991 - One Man's War
1991 - Howards End
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1990 - Desperate Hours
1989 - Great Expectations
1988 - The Dawning
1987 - 84 Charing Cross Road
1985 - The Good Father
1985 - Mussolini and I
1985 - Guilty Conscience
1985 - Arch of Triumph
1985 - Hollywood Wives
1984 - The Bounty
1983 - A Married Man
1982 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1981 - Othello
1981 - Peter and Paul
1981 - The Bunker
1980 - A Change of Seasons
1980 - The Elephant Man
1979 - Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1978 - International Velvet
1978 - Magic
1977 - Audrey Rose
1977 - A Bridge Too Far
1976 - Victory at Entebbe
1976 - The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976 - Dark Victory
1974 - The Childhood Friend
1974 - Juggernaut
1974 - QB VII
1974 - The Girl from Petrovka
1973 - A Doll's House
1972 - War and Peace
1972 - Young Winston
1971 - When Eight Bells Toll
1970 - Hearts and Flowers
1970 - The Three Sisters
1970 - The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1969 - Department S
1969 - Hamlet
1969 - The Looking Glass War
1968 - The Lion in Winter
1967 - A Flea in Her Ear
Awards Anthony Hopkins Won
- BAFTA Best Actor Award 1973 - War and Peace
- Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor 1976 - The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
- Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor 1981 - The Bunker
- Academy Award Best Actor 1992 - The Silence of The Lambs
- BAFTA Best Actor Award 1992 - The Silence of The Lambs
- BAFTA Best Actor Award 1994 - Shadowlands
- Critics Choice Award 1998 - Amistad
- Golden Globe, Cecil B. DeMille Award 2006
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