Quotes from Anthony Hopkins

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then…that's what makes life worthwhile.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

My life is not my own business.

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.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I love life because what more is there?

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

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.

I've got a great sense of humor.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

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.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

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.

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.