408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

I’m devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

I like to work. I don’t like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don’t like to change my head. I’d rather be a third-rate actor. It’s a job, and I’m dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I’m serious about it. But if it doesn’t come off, I’m not going to die.

I play music – I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very “method” and all that. Now, I don’t give a hoot.

People ask, ‘Should I call you Sir Hopkins?’ But I say, ‘No. Call me Tony,’ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

I wouldn’t use the word ‘scared’ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

I’d like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don’t. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with-life’s too short.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.