You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.
Anthony HopkinsPeople don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
Anthony HopkinsI still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.
Anthony HopkinsThe art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony HopkinsWhen I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.
Anthony Hopkins