Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing King Richard the Lionheart...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 December 1937
CityMargam, Wales
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time.
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
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.
I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.