408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

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

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

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.

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

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.