It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.
Anthony HopkinsI spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.
Anthony HopkinsThe art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony HopkinsWhat is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...โThis is show business. This is the great movie career. And itโs all finding it in the shoebox.โ
Anthony Hopkins