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I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.
On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.
If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.
I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.
I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
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.
When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.
I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.
I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.
Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.
The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.