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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, director and film producer. 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. Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and in 2008 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television 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 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear , his favourite Shakespeare play. Despite his success in theatre, Hopkins yearned to be on screen. His last stage play was a West End production of Madame Butterfly in 1989.
“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 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.”
“I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.”
“I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He replied, " Forget it, it’s in Gods hands .”
“ People don’t always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don’t advance in life. ”
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now was part of the happiness then.”
"I was lousy in school. A 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."
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- - - - - - -“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.”
“I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.”
“I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He replied, " Forget it, it’s in Gods hands .”
“ People don’t always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don’t advance in life. ”
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now was part of the happiness then.”
"I was lousy in school. A 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."
