Has twice played a character who loses a hand by having it severed with a meat cleaver: in It's fun to get the Oscar, it was fun to get a knighthood. Say "thank you," and get off!' [on acting} I'm not going to turn my back on it until they tell me it's over and we don't want you anymore.
No regrets. Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. An audition at Cardiff's Drama School earned Anthony Hopkins a two year scholarship.
It was very nice to get an Oscar but now it just rusts and tarnishes on the sideboard near the TV. [on what he considers his greatest achievement] Everything rather blends into one now. He's the only child of a couple who ran a bakery. When I break with a friend it is sudden.
Well, I don't think we're wired that way. That's why I became an actor. Also 'TYFP' - 'That's your f****** problem. ' [on becoming a U.S. citizen in 2000] America has been very generous to me, magnanimous really. I like bad boys. Has the distinction of twice playing former British Prime Minister It wasn't for me. For most of it I was drinking myself into oblivion. They had this big plasma screen on with these women on the catwalk. And I've read Stanislavski and did the Method myself, and all that, but now I've simplified it: learn your lines, show up, and get on with it. She's very positive, very powerful.
His Oscar-winning performance as Hannibal Lecter in I mean, I've had a number of good ones, but I get restless and I take off.
A moron.
Graduated from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England.
Acting is still enjoyable, but there are no more challenges any more for me. And I say, 'Yeah OK.' Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. [on his most famous character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter] I think he might be a very interesting person to have lunch with, provided that YOU weren't the lunch. I'm just detached, I do my thing.
He often accompanied his father, who always whistled while on his bakery rounds and he put that into his character in 2006: His performance as Hannibal Lecter in We're all just a bunch of sinners crashing around in the darkness. Well just don't move. I know a number of people like that, but I can't waste my time on them. My mother married into a family of in-laws. We're living in a pretty strange time. I am what an am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. I work hard and I see through the bastards and to this day I have massive energy; I think it keeps a youthfulness in me. Well, I don't think we're wired that way. As a child, young Anthony took part in many parties and local performances where he got noticed for his mime talents. If I don't want to do something, after a while I'll say "No. Served in the British National Service as a Royal Artillery man and for a while was only known as "Gunner Hopkins". [on how he prepares for the characters he plays] I learn the text!
In those days they yanked it out. He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 New Year Honours List for his services to drama. A really bad student. Anthony Hopkins Actor | The Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. But he left the school after some months and continued his education at Cowbridge Grammar School. He has two Shakespearean roles in common with Was considered for the role of Jack Byrnes in My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I didn't have any brains. We're living in a pretty strange time. I work hard at it, but I don't invest my life in it. Then he was the first choice of the villains in both Goldeneye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). It wasn't for me. It was so depressing I moved to the land of Donald Duck. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, three BAFTAs, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. It's extraordinary. I'm not hard, I'm honest. These girls - anorexic, walking like machines, no soul. I will not be taken for a fool any more. [on what his idea of a good night is] Staying in and watching Mob Wives on TV.
He stirs up controversy. An accomplished painter, he has allowed some of his landscape paintings to be exhibited in San Antonio, Texas. How did I get here?" I worked with some good people here, like In the late 1970s, Anthony Hopkins set up his own company, the 'South Coast Repertory Company', designed to perform in American high schools and universities. His parents were of half Welsh and half English descent. As long as they pay me on time and I get a good script with a good director, I have fun. [At age 72]: I'm not getting the parts I was 20 years ago - but I'm still doing okay. He often accompanied his father, who always whistled while on his bakery rounds and he put that into his character in I never slow down because I love to work.