When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.