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.
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 HopkinsFor me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
Anthony HopkinsWe're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.
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