Feel Quotes

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Work Challenge Stone

I love life because what more is there?

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Because More Life

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Movies Well Little

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Poetry You Really

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Hope Religion Would

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Good Up Very

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: You Your Love

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

Tags: Good Like Life

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Happiness Life Love

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Time Thing Every

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Home People About

I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Time You People

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Family Like Who

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: You Get Lot

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

Tags: Like Just Who

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

Tags: Good Like Life

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Me Get Know

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Freedom Really Always

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

Tags: Time Death You

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

Anthony Hopkins

Tags: Really Know Other

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

Tags: Music Just Really