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

— 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 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

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

— Anthony Hopkins

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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

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