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35 Inspirational Anthony Hopkins Quotes On Success
Last Updated Sept 2023

Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992, and was nominated three additional times. Hopkins has also won three BAFTAs, two Emmys, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he achieved renown, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who would direct five Hopkins films, called him ‘the greatest actor of his generation’. Hopkins portrayed Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon. Hopkins was nominated for three other Academy Awards for the films, The Remains of the Day, Nixon, and Amistad. He has stared in many other notable films and television series such as The Mask Of Zorro, Thor, and Westworld. May these Anthony Hopkins Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.” Anthony Hopkins
2. “I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.” Anthony Hopkins
3. “Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.” Anthony Hopkins
4. “Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.” Anthony Hopkins
5. “We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.” Anthony Hopkins
6. “I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.” Anthony Hopkins
7. “I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down.” Anthony Hopkins
8. “I’ve got a great sense of humor.” Anthony Hopkins
9. “If I spent all my time criticizing myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorize till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.” Anthony Hopkins
10. “I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.” Anthony Hopkins
11 “I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.” Anthony Hopkins
12. “Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.” Anthony Hopkins
13. “I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.” Anthony Hopkins
14. “I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense. I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.” Anthony Hopkins
15. “And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.” Anthony Hopkins
16. “I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.” Anthony Hopkins
17. “I’m always cast in these strange men, that’s not me, really.” Anthony Hopkins
18. “Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.” Anthony Hopkins
19. “I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.” Anthony Hopkins
20. “Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.” Anthony Hopkins
21. “This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet.” Anthony Hopkins
22. “I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school, I would like to have gone to music college.” Anthony Hopkins
23. “A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.” Anthony Hopkins
24. “We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.” Anthony Hopkins
25. “Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light, and everything. And that makes for a full life.” Anthony Hopkins
26. “I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.” Anthony Hopkins
27. “I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.” Anthony Hopkins
28. “My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.” Anthony Hopkins
29. “I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.” Anthony Hopkins
30. “Guilt is the thief of life.” Anthony Hopkins
31. “I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.” Anthony Hopkins
32. “I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days, I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.” Anthony Hopkins
33. “People don’t always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don’t advance in life.” Anthony Hopkins
34. Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.” Anthony Hopkins
35. “There is no shortcut to happiness, you have to live your life.” Anthony Hopkins
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