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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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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. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#admire #always #because #being #course

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anywhere #came #else #feel #here

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#directors #doing #else #everything #get

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #day #end #find #going

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#easy #go #i #i always #i can

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#any #confession #great #heart #i

Today, you have 100% of your life left. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

#life #today #you #your