When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.
Anthony HopkinsI visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
Anthony HopkinsI've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.
Anthony HopkinsI wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
Anthony HopkinsI do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.
Anthony Hopkins