408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

I play piano and that’s my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I’ve got a pretty full creative life. And it’s not because, I’m obsessively creative.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I was called ‘Dumbo,’ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

I read a lot, that’s my main hobby. I’ve got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I’m a slow reader but I’m obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I’m an autodidact.

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.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you’re influenced.

It’s very difficult to liberate yourself from what you’ve learned. You know it’s almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn’t have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn’t play sports, couldn’t learn, and I was bottom of the class.