Anthony Hopkins

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

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.

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.

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

I love life because what more is there?

I've got a great sense of humor.

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.

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.

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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 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.

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

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