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I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#directors #fine #i #intensity #know

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#great #i #lawrence #mentor #olivier

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#i #me #secure #seemed #spielberg

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

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#clever #college #composing #enough #gone

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #cows #discovery #home #i

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#oliver #oliver stone #stone #work

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#baker #father #grounded #man #meat-and-potatoes

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#burton #came #follow #i #i think

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#even #every #every second #force #illusion