Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins was born on 31 December 1937 in Port Talbot, holding both United Kingdom and United States citizenship. His early education took him through West Monmouth School and Cowbridge Grammar School before he pursued formal dramatic training at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a sequence of institutions that prepared him for a career across multiple creative disciplines.
Hopkins works as an actor, film director, composer, and producer. In 1993, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to drama. He has received two Academy Awards over the course of his career, and in 2005 he was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
In 2008, Hopkins received the BAFTA Fellowship. The Library of Congress catalogues him under the authorized label "Hopkins, Anthony, 1937–," a designation that reflects his continuing status as a working actor.
Quotes by Anthony Hopkins
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.