If youโre an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if weโre lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
Anthony HopkinsIf you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.
Anthony HopkinsI'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
Anthony HopkinsI've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.
Anthony HopkinsYou 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 Hopkins