408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

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.

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.

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.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

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

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

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

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.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.