Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Arrogant

Too Much

Trying

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Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people – and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn’t mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter – but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

Mean

People

Thinking

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Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don’t have to do much – as long as you stay out of the way of others. That’s why it works.

Acting

Listening

Long

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Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

Acting

Lines

Rhythm

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Acting’s entertainment. It’s not brain surgery.

Acting

Brain

Theatre

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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Actors

Fighting

Thinking

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As a Welshman that can’t sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir – the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

Males

Membership

Proud

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At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

Age

Aging

Good Day

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Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Dry

Tyranny

Weak

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By giving up ‘the need’ and ‘the want’, things begin to happen for you

Giving Up

Needs

Want

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