408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

Getting old ain’t for the faint of heart.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

That’s what happens if you don’t address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn’t it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Oliver Stone is a great director and I’ve seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.

I’m glad I’m not young anymore. I don’t want to start all over again.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don’t have to do much – as long as you stay out of the way of others. That’s why it works.

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.