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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Life #Thinking #Mind
“There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Scared #Stage
“My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Philosophy #Insperational #Thinking
“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Voice #Trying #Sound
“Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Life #People #Insecurity
“I'm glad I'm not young anymore. I don't want to start all over again.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Want #Young #Glad
“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.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Workout #Lying #Glasses
“Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Acceptance #Expectations #Resentment
“I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Play #Monsters #Able
“Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don't expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Reality #Giving #Soul
“I love life because what more is there?”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Love #Life #Insperational
“What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that big movies are going to come out and then you see them up in Malibu in the little triplex theatre a week later and you think, this is show business. This is the great movie career. And it's all funded in the shoe box.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Thinking #Careers #Shoes
“Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences...”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Believe #Oil #Long
“I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

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

#Art #Acting #Facts
“I'm not being cynical but when you're doing a movie you have a number to choices to do as an actor. But then you see it all cut together and some of the little...all those little precious pieces you put in maybe on the cutting room floor. So you don't have that much control. You have very little control, in fact.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Cutting #Numbers #Choices
“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.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Love #Hurt #Pain
“I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Good Life #Mind #Commodity
“We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Darkness #Shadow #Boogeyman
“Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Sex #Drug #Kind
“I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Beautiful #Wife #Married
“If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Flirting #Drug #Lucky
“The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Actors #Knighthood #Stuff
“Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Kids #Littles #Likes
“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Hogwash #Sentimental #Nonsense
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Nice #Tests #Chianti
“People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#People #Lines #Ask Me
“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Philosophy #Jail #Acting
“My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.”
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Wife #Acting #Cookies
“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

#Stars #Crazy #Thinking

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