Anthony Hopkins Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I was lousy in school. 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, School, Kids

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

• I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Children, School, Elephants

  "Hopkins' Father Stopped School Beatings With Threats" by wenn.com, February 16, 2010.

• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Clever, School, College

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

• 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.

  Anthony Hopkins

  School, Promise, Acting

• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, Children, Home

• My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sports, School, Boys

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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