408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

My weak spot is that I don’t like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That’s the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Shakespeare’s so bloody difficult, and I don’t like failure. You can fail on film, but there’s nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

You look closely enough, you’ll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won’t mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, “God he was acting a lot.” Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.