408 Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

When you’re younger you’ve got a lot of ideas and you’re probably more insecure. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities, and I make them laugh because I know exactly what they’re going through. When you get older you think, it’s only a movie after all, it’s not brain surgery.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I’ve forgotten it. Fracture.

I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It’s a pretty infantile way to go through life – I’ll show them – but I’ve done it, and I’ve got more than I ever dreamed of.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‘Equis.’ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‘I’m home.’ I felt really at peace here.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They’re the enemies of peace.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can’t waffle through this business.

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, “It’s a good script,” I’ll do it. I don’t plan. I’ve got a lot of things to do. I’m at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.