408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

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.

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people – and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn’t mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter – but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

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.

I enjoy painting. I don’t know if I’m good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It’s a bit scarier going on stage.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I’ve got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

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.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.