Have a look at Anthony Hopkins’ Top 10 quotes, on love, life and success
Sir Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, director and a producer, born on December 31, 1937, in Glamorgan, Wales, to parents Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins.
After proving his excellence as an actor, at quite a lot of stage plays and theater, Hopkins rose to mainstream prominence with the movie ‘The Lion In Winter’, playing the role of ‘Richard The Lionheart’, released in 1968.
Some of the actor’s most brilliant pieces of work include his movies, ‘The Silence Of The Lambs, playing Hannibal Lecter, ‘Hannibal’, ‘Red Dragon’, ‘The Elephant Man’ in 1980, ‘Thor’s in 2011, ‘Thor: The Dark World’ in 2013, ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ and ”Thor Ragnarok’ in 2017.
Hopkins is a proud recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, and a British Academy Television Award.
Let’s have a look at one of the greatest actor’s best said quotes of all times, that are truly inspiring and all about love, life and success.
#1
“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.”
#2
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
#3
“If I spent all my time criticizing myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorize till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.”
#4
“I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.”
#5
“Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light, and everything. And that makes for a full life.”
#6
“Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‘I want to get out and become like him’. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.”
#7
“We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.”
#8
“I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. 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.”
#9
“For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.”
#10
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”
