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Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

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

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

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.

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.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

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 have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

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.

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

I love life because what more is there.

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.

I never make conscious decisions.

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.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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

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.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.